Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 -next] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to sleep

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:33:17 +0100

On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 11:12 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
[...]
> The r8169 current problem is its currently copying all incoming frames.
> I guess nobody cares or noticed the performance drop.
> (But commit c0cd884a is recent (2.6.34), this is not yet in
> production...)

Since that was a security fix it was backported to 2.6.32.12 and
probably most distribution kernels.  So yes it is in production.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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