[PATCH 1/6] ibmveth: Enable TCP checksum offload

[Jeff Garzik]

Brian King wrote:
> This patchset enables TCP checksum offload support for IPV4
> on ibmveth. This completely eliminates the generation and checking of
> the checksum for packets that are completely virtual and never
> touch a physical network. A simple TCP_STREAM netperf run on
> a virtual network with maximum mtu set yielded a ~30% increase
> in throughput. This feature is enabled by default on systems that
> support it, but can be disabled with a module option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

ACK, but does not apply to current netdev-2.6.git#upstream-fixes. 
Request resend after the ibmveth fixes hit mainline (24 hours or so 
after push, I suppose)