* 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:
* 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).
* 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:
*
* 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:
* 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.
*
*
* 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
* 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.
*
* 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).
*/
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