netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] Avoid local_irq_save() and use napi_alloc

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Date:   Sun, 09 Jun 2019 19:40:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bigeasy@...utronix.de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] Avoid local_irq_save() and use
 napi_alloc_frag() where possible

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Date: Fri,  7 Jun 2019 21:20:33 +0200

> The first two patches remove local_irq_save() around
> `netdev_alloc_cache' which does not work on -RT. Besides helping -RT it
> whould benefit the users of the function since they can avoid disabling
> interrupts and save a few cycles.
> The remaining patches are from a time when I tried to remove
> `netdev_alloc_cache' but then noticed that we still have non-NAPI
> drivers using netdev_alloc_skb() and I dropped that idea. Using
> napi_alloc_frag() over netdev_alloc_frag() would skip the not required
> local_bh_disable() around the allocation.
 ...

Series applied, thanks.