[PATCH] nvme: add DIX support for nvme-rdma

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Sun Sep 4 23:37:59 PDT 2022


On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 08:21:29PM +0800, Chao Leng wrote:
> Checksum just be used between host_buff -> host HBA, and the time
> is very short. If hardware support this, it is useful for reducing
> CPU utilization and data security can be acceptable like SCSI.

No, that is not how _end to and_ data protection works.

And as said before, the IP checksums are not actually specified in NVMe
to start with.



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