Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: sctp: fix and consolidate SCTP checksumming code

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:11:34 +0100

On 10/30/2013 03:29 PM, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> On 10/30/2013 06:50 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
[...]
> Daniel
>
> Here is a follow-on idea that might help even more.
> What if we put a pointer to skb_checksum_ops() in the skb
> somewhere (I was thinking of skb_shinfo).  Then
> skb_checksum can simply use the data from there.  This would
> allow us to get rid of all the special cases in SCTP that do
> checksumming.  We can just set it to partial, set up the right
> fields and let HW or SW always do the right thing.

I need to think about this a bit. This would certainly have the
negative side-effect of a higher skb->truesize usage and thus
affecting memory accounting for everyone as we extend
skb_shared_info.