netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: revert 8728c544a9c ("net: dev_pick

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Date:	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:48:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
	xii@...gle.com, therbert@...gle.com, nuclearcat@...learcat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: revert 8728c544a9c ("net: dev_pick_tx() fix")

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:10:43 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> commit 8728c544a9cbdc ("net: dev_pick_tx() fix") and commit
> b6fe83e9525a ("bonding: refine IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability")
> are quite incompatible : Queue selection is disabled because skb
> dst was dropped before entering bonding device.
> 
> This causes major performance regression, mainly because TCP packets
> for a given flow can be sent to multiple queues.
> 
> This is particularly visible when using the new FQ packet scheduler
> with MQ + FQ setup on the slaves.
> 
> We can safely revert the first commit now that 416186fbf8c5b
> ("net: Split core bits of netdev_pick_tx into __netdev_pick_tx")
> properly caps the queue_index.
> 
> Reported-by: Xi Wang <xii@...gle.com>
> Diagnosed-by: Xi Wang <xii@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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