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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/skbuff.h | 38 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index 28b1a2b4459e..3a2ac7072dbb 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ * A. IP checksum related features * * Drivers advertise checksum offload capabilities in the features of a device. - * From the stack's point of view these are capabilities offered by the driver, - * a driver typically only advertises features that it is capable of offloading + * From the stack's point of view these are capabilities offered by the driver. + * A driver typically only advertises features that it is capable of offloading * to its device. * * The checksum related features are: @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ * TCP or UDP packets over IPv4. These are specifically * unencapsulated packets of the form IPv4|TCP or * IPv4|UDP where the Protocol field in the IPv4 header - * is TCP or UDP. The IPv4 header may contain IP options + * is TCP or UDP. The IPv4 header may contain IP options. * This feature cannot be set in features for a device * with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM also set. This feature is being * DEPRECATED (see below). @@ -79,13 +79,13 @@ * DEPRECATED (see below). * * NETIF_F_RXCSUM - Driver (device) performs receive checksum offload. - * This flag is used only used to disable the RX checksum + * This flag is only used to disable the RX checksum * feature for a device. The stack will accept receive * checksum indication in packets received on a device * regardless of whether NETIF_F_RXCSUM is set. * * B. Checksumming of received packets by device. Indication of checksum - * verification is in set skb->ip_summed. Possible values are: + * verification is set in skb->ip_summed. Possible values are: * * CHECKSUM_NONE: * @@ -115,16 +115,16 @@ * the packet minus one that have been verified as CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. * For instance if a device receives an IPv6->UDP->GRE->IPv4->TCP packet * and a device is able to verify the checksums for UDP (possibly zero), - * GRE (checksum flag is set), and TCP-- skb->csum_level would be set to + * GRE (checksum flag is set) and TCP, skb->csum_level would be set to * two. If the device were only able to verify the UDP checksum and not - * GRE, either because it doesn't support GRE checksum of because GRE + * GRE, either because it doesn't support GRE checksum or because GRE * checksum is bad, skb->csum_level would be set to zero (TCP checksum is * not considered in this case). * * CHECKSUM_COMPLETE: * * This is the most generic way. The device supplied checksum of the _whole_ - * packet as seen by netif_rx() and fills out in skb->csum. Meaning, the + * packet as seen by netif_rx() and fills in skb->csum. This means the * hardware doesn't need to parse L3/L4 headers to implement this. * * Notes: @@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ * from skb->csum_start up to the end, and to record/write the checksum at * offset skb->csum_start + skb->csum_offset. A driver may verify that the * csum_start and csum_offset values are valid values given the length and - * offset of the packet, however they should not attempt to validate that the - * checksum refers to a legitimate transport layer checksum-- it is the + * offset of the packet, but it should not attempt to validate that the + * checksum refers to a legitimate transport layer checksum -- it is the * purview of the stack to validate that csum_start and csum_offset are set * correctly. * @@ -178,18 +178,18 @@ * * CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY: * - * This has the same meaning on as CHECKSUM_NONE for checksum offload on + * This has the same meaning as CHECKSUM_NONE for checksum offload on * output. * * CHECKSUM_COMPLETE: * Not used in checksum output. If a driver observes a packet with this value - * set in skbuff, if should treat as CHECKSUM_NONE being set. + * set in skbuff, it should treat the packet as if CHECKSUM_NONE were set. * * D. Non-IP checksum (CRC) offloads * * NETIF_F_SCTP_CRC - This feature indicates that a device is capable of * offloading the SCTP CRC in a packet. To perform this offload the stack - * will set set csum_start and csum_offset accordingly, set ip_summed to + * will set csum_start and csum_offset accordingly, set ip_summed to * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and set csum_not_inet to 1, to provide an indication in * the skbuff that the CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to CRC32c. * A driver that supports both IP checksum offload and SCTP CRC32c offload @@ -200,10 +200,10 @@ * NETIF_F_FCOE_CRC - This feature indicates that a device is capable of * offloading the FCOE CRC in a packet. To perform this offload the stack * will set ip_summed to CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and set csum_start and csum_offset - * accordingly. Note the there is no indication in the skbuff that the - * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to an FCOE checksum, a driver that supports + * accordingly. Note that there is no indication in the skbuff that the + * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to an FCOE checksum, so a driver that supports * both IP checksum offload and FCOE CRC offload must verify which offload - * is configured for a packet presumably by inspecting packet headers. + * is configured for a packet, presumably by inspecting packet headers. * * E. Checksumming on output with GSO. * @@ -211,9 +211,9 @@ * is implied by the SKB_GSO_* flags in gso_type. Most obviously, if the * gso_type is SKB_GSO_TCPV4 or SKB_GSO_TCPV6, TCP checksum offload as * part of the GSO operation is implied. If a checksum is being offloaded - * with GSO then ip_summed is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, csum_start and csum_offset - * are set to refer to the outermost checksum being offload (two offloaded - * checksums are possible with UDP encapsulation). + * with GSO then ip_summed is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, and both csum_start and + * csum_offset are set to refer to the outermost checksum being offloaded + * (two offloaded checksums are possible with UDP encapsulation). */ /* Don't change this without changing skb_csum_unnecessary! */ |