linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.9-rc6

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Date:   Sun, 04 Dec 2016 09:17:22 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.9-rc6

On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 03:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Dec 4, 2016 02:43, "Thorsten Leemhuis" <regressions@...mhuis.info>
> wrote:
>         
>         
>         What the status of below patch? From the discussion it looks a
>         lot like
>         it was developed to fix a regression in 4.9, but the patch
>         afaics has
>         neither his mainline or linux-next yet. 
> 
> 
> It's not a regression as far as I can tell. It's a small optimization.
> Maybe.
> 
> 
> It's not going into 4.9, is not even clear it's worth it later either,
> unless somebody had numbers (which I haven't seen)
> 
Right, the patch was not in anyway ready for 4.9 ;)

I'll try to complete this for next cycle.

Thanks.