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iwlwifi: mvm: Enable Rx Checksum hw
authorAvri Altman <avri.altman@intel.com>
Sat, 27 Dec 2014 07:09:47 +0000 (09:09 +0200)
committerEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Tue, 4 Aug 2015 07:11:49 +0000 (10:11 +0300)
commit7560c905f407958a014999abb293db8d2914346d
tree2988e694ac998cef073bfd28b4b44bb90320e387
parentdcc2da46166175dd61911fd0930fca96d20d896b
iwlwifi: mvm: Enable Rx Checksum hw

TCP software implementation on the host requires extensive computing
power.  Offloading even some of the TCP/IP stack to the NIC might save
a significant overhead. In order to enable this feature on our hw,
we need to configure it first. Once done, we mark this capability,
to be advertised later to the OS via ieee80211_register_hw.
The driver Rx indications for TCP Checksum is integrated within the
standard Rx status. The driver responds to those indications as follows:
If the frame was tested by hw and checksum ok report CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.
Otherwise, report CHECKSUM_NONE.

Signed-off-by: Avri Altman <avri.altman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-8000.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-config.h
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-fw-file.h
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/fw-api.h
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mvm.h
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/rx.c