Question: how can i applay IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload H/W Engine to our softmac driver on mac80211 ?

Question: how can i applay IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload H/W Engine to our softmac driver on mac80211 ?

[기상원 (SW Ki)]

hello everyone.

i would like to use our hardware TCP/IP Checksum logic on the mac80211 driver.
but, i can see the IP Checksum in Tx skb_buffer on mac80211 tx handler after "g_ieee80211_hw->netdev_features = NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;"

you can find the IP checksum value that is 0x26, 0x42.
[   40.970000]  queue_skb: IP protocol: 0x00000008
0xC042382E: 88 01 00 00 00 50 43 21 22 2B 00 01 02 03 04 05  .....PC!"+......
0xC042392E: 00 19 B9 79 2D 7E 90 00 00 00 AA AA 03 00 00 00  ...y-~..........
0xC0423A2E: 08 00 45 00 00 54 00 00 40 00 40 01 [26 42] 0A 00  ..E..T..@.@.&B..
0xC0423B2E: 00 04 0A 00 00 64 08 00 CB C5 CB 02 00 01 F0 33  .....d.........3
0xC0423C2E: 71 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  q...............
0xC0423D2E: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0xC0423E2E: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0xC0423F2E: 00 00 00 00 00 00

how can I remove the IP checksum field calculation by software generation on mac80211 stack?

thanks & best regards
Sangwon, Ki

Re: Question: how can i applay IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload H/W Engine to our softmac driver on mac80211 ?

[Krishna Chaitanya]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:11 PM, 기상원 (SW Ki) <oprsystem@telechips.com> wrote:
> hello everyone.
>
> i would like to use our hardware TCP/IP Checksum logic on the mac80211 driver.
> but, i can see the IP Checksum in Tx skb_buffer on mac80211 tx handler after "g_ieee80211_hw->netdev_features = NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;"
>
> you can find the IP checksum value that is 0x26, 0x42.
> [   40.970000]  queue_skb: IP protocol: 0x00000008
> 0xC042382E: 88 01 00 00 00 50 43 21 22 2B 00 01 02 03 04 05  .....PC!"+......
> 0xC042392E: 00 19 B9 79 2D 7E 90 00 00 00 AA AA 03 00 00 00  ...y-~..........
> 0xC0423A2E: 08 00 45 00 00 54 00 00 40 00 40 01 [26 42] 0A 00  ..E..T..@.@.&B..
> 0xC0423B2E: 00 04 0A 00 00 64 08 00 CB C5 CB 02 00 01 F0 33  .....d.........3
> 0xC0423C2E: 71 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  q...............
> 0xC0423D2E: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> 0xC0423E2E: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> 0xC0423F2E: 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
> how can I remove the IP checksum field calculation by software generation on mac80211 stack?
>
> thanks & best regards
> Sangwon, Ki
>
>
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The TCP/IP checksum is calcualted by linux network stack. It does the
below check and decides to go for checksum or not.
skb->ip_summed= CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY will disable the checksum
calculation by linux stack.

Your HW can appends its own checksum. Good detailed info on
http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg17044.html


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static inline int skb_csum_unnecessary(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
        return skb->ip_summed & CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
}