From: Alexander Duyck
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> One thought I had is that we may want to look into making an inline
> function that we can call for compile-time defined lengths less than
> 64. Maybe call it something like __csum_partial and we could then use
> that in place of csum_partial for all those headers that are a fixed
> length that we pull such as UDP, VXLAN, Ethernet, and the rest. Then
> we might be able to look at taking care of alignment for csum_partial
> which will improve the skb_checksum() case without impacting the
> header pulling cases as much since that code would be inlined
> elsewhere.
I think there are some patches going through the ppc tree to do
exactly that.
David
