From: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
To: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>,
"Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
"Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
"Jonathan Bell" <jonathan@raspberrypi.com>,
"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Richard Cochran" <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: macb: exclude software FCS from TX byte statistics
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:04:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa6aacfb1ed9caaad5370acab5f12de2@tipi-net.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260828140242.7c78d4cd@pumpkin>
Hi David
On 28.8.2026 15:02, David Laight wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:20:24 +0200
> [...]
>> > Either way, you only need u8 or even a flag for this,
>> > not a full u32?
>>
>> Agreed. skb->len at completion should already do the trick (minus
>> ETH_FCS_LEN).
>> So a flag would be sufficient.
>
> If you make the 'flag' 0 or 4 it will save some maths (and maybe a
> branch)
> in the completion code.
I will make tx_skb->fcs_len hold 0 or ETH_FCS_LEN directly, so
completion becomes
a skb->len - tx_skb->fcs_len. Anyway, I will split the patch into its
own
as suggested by Paolo and you.
> [...]
Thanks
Nicolai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-24 13:47 [PATCH net 0/2] net: macb: fix zero UDPv4 checksum on transmit Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-08-24 13:47 ` [PATCH net 1/2] net: macb: exclude software FCS from TX byte statistics Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-08-25 15:04 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-08-27 8:52 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-08-28 8:10 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-08-27 18:56 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-08-28 8:20 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-08-28 13:02 ` David Laight
2026-08-31 10:04 ` Nicolai Buchwitz [this message]
2026-08-28 8:37 ` David Laight
2026-08-24 13:47 ` [PATCH net 2/2] net: macb: fix zero UDPv4 checksum on transmit Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-08-28 6:04 ` [PATCH net 0/2] " Alexander Dahl
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