From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com, tarbal@gmail•com,
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
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:15:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120608021542.GA10112@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120607.144358.1732928576389957779.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:43:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <tarbal@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 -stable submission.
The patch description says it is fixing reported oopses, but the
Subject: isn't all that helpful there.
So which is this? Should I accept it for a stable release or not?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-08 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-07 12:49 [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses Roman Kagan
2012-06-07 21:38 ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-06-07 21:43 ` David Miller
2012-06-07 22:02 ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-06-08 2:15 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-06-08 7:37 ` Roman Kagan
2012-06-13 11:12 ` Roman Kagan
2012-06-14 22:30 ` Greg KH
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