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From: Brice Goglin <brice@myri•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: sgruszka@redhat•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org, gallatin@myri•com,
	brice@myri•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] myr10ge: again fix lro_gen_skb() alignment
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:48:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E5AD56.6020701@myri.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415.022809.90182032.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat•com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:09:37 +0200
>
>   
>> Add LRO alignment initially committed in 621544eb8c3beaa859c75850f816dd9b056a00a3
>> and removed in 0dcffac1a329be69bab0ac604bf7283737108e68 during conversion to
>> multi-slice.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat•com>
>>     
>
> Applied, thanks.
>
> Please, in the future, add the header string of the commit message
> when referencing GIT commits.  When this patch is added to the -stable
> kernel or similar the GIT commit ideas might be different and it
> will be impossible for someone reading your commit message to find
> the referenced commit using only the SHA ID.
>   

I guess we need to send this patch to the stable maintainers since it
should affect 2.6.27, .28 and .29.

> Also, it would great to get this driver converted over to GRO,
> such bugs like this one aren't even possible with GRO :-)
>   

It looks like nobody complains about GRO bugs or performance-problems
anymore so we might indeed look at converting myri10ge for 2.6.31.

Is there a good summary somewhere of why GRO is better, and how to
actually convert drivers?

Brice


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-15  8:09 [PATCH] myr10ge: again fix lro_gen_skb() alignment Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-04-15  9:28 ` David Miller
2009-04-15  9:48   ` Brice Goglin [this message]
2009-04-15 10:02     ` David Miller
2009-04-15 13:01       ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-15 21:04         ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-15 23:42           ` David Miller
2009-04-16  8:50             ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-16  9:02               ` David Miller
2009-04-21 19:19               ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-22 10:48                 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-22 15:37                   ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-24  5:45                     ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-24 12:45                       ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-24 12:51                         ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-24 17:13                         ` Rick Jones
2009-04-24 16:16                       ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-24 16:30                         ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-24 16:31                           ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-27  8:05                         ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-27  8:07                           ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-27  9:32                             ` David Miller
2009-04-27 11:01                               ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-27 12:45                             ` David Miller
2009-04-27 12:45                           ` David Miller
2009-04-28  6:12                           ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-28 15:00                             ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-28 15:02                               ` David Miller
2009-04-28 15:20                               ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-28 15:44                                 ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-28 21:12                                 ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-29 13:42                                   ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-29 13:53                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-29 14:18                                       ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-29 15:26                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-29 17:28                                           ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-30  8:10                                             ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-30  8:14                                               ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-30  8:17                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-30 19:14                                               ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-23  8:00                 ` Herbert Xu

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