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dpnaa2: announce transmit checksum support
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Authored by tuexen on Wed, Jan 21, 7:50 AM.
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Let the network stack know that the NIC supports checksum offloading for the IPv4 header checksum and the TCP and UDP transport checksum. This avoids the computation in software and therefore provides the expected performance gain.

This is in relation to PR 292006.

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