Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses

2012-06-14 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 03:12:17PM +0400, Roman Kagan wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 11:37 +0400, Roman Kagan wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 06:15 +0400, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:43:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Kirsher tar...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 07 Jun

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses

2012-06-13 Thread Roman Kagan
On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 11:37 +0400, Roman Kagan wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 06:15 +0400, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:43:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Kirsher tar...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:38:17 -0700 Thanks! I have applied the patch to my

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses

2012-06-08 Thread Roman Kagan
On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 06:15 +0400, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:43:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Kirsher tar...@gmail.com 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

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses

2012-06-07 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Kirsher tar...@gmail.com 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

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses

2012-06-07 Thread Jeff Kirsher
On 06/07/2012 02:43 PM, David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Kirsher tar...@gmail.com 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

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses

2012-06-07 Thread Jeff Kirsher
On 06/07/2012 05:49 AM, Roman Kagan wrote: [Upstream commit 31c15a2f24ebdab14333d9bf5df49757842ae2ec with paths adjusted to compensate for the drivers/net/ethernet/intel reorg in dee1ad47f2ee75f5146d83ca757c1b7861c34c3b] Author: Dean Nelson dnel...@redhat.com Date: Thu Aug 25 14:39:24 2011

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses

2012-06-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:43:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Kirsher tar...@gmail.com 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