Re: [PATCH] x86: Run checksumming in parallel accross multiple alu's

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Oct 14 2013 - 00:38:53 EST


Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> SÃbastien Duguà reported to me that devices implementing ipoib (which don't have
> checksum offload hardware were spending a significant amount of time computing

Must be an odd workload, most TCP/UDP workloads do copy-checksum
anyways. I would rather investigate why that doesn't work.

That said the change looks reasonable, but may not fix the root cause.

-Andi

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