Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757910Ab2FGVoB (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:44:01 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:45894 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757370Ab2FGVoA (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:44:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20120607.144358.1732928576389957779.davem@davemloft.net> To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, tarbal@gmail.com Cc: rkagan@parallels.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, bruce.w.allan@intel.com, carolyn.wyborny@intel.com, donald.c.skidmore@intel.com, gregory.v.rose@intel.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com, dnelson@redhat.com, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4FD11F49.5060805@gmail.com> References: <4FD11F49.5060805@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 560 Lines: 15 From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:38:17 -0700 > Thanks! I have applied the patch to my queue Why? My impression is that this is a patch already in the tree, and it's being submitted for -stable but such minor performance hacks are absolutely not appropriate for -stable submission. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/