netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] gro_cells: remove spinlock protecting receive queues

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:17:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] gro_cells: remove spinlock protecting receive
 queues

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:57:34 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> As David pointed out, spinlock are no longer needed
> to protect the per cpu queues used in gro cells infrastructure.
> 
> Also use new napi_complete_done() API so that gro_flush_timeout
> tweaks have an effect.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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