linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: Use simple parser for IPv4 and v6 headers

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Message-Id: <20151216.182310.1967561459941374668.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:23:10 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	haiyangz@...rosoft.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kys@...rosoft.com,
	olaf@...fle.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: Use simple parser for IPv4 and v6
 headers

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:20:44 +0000

> In our test, we have bisected and found the following patch introduced big 
> overhead into skb_flow_dissect_flow_keys(), and caused performance 
> regression:
> commit: d34af823
> net: Add VLAN ID to flow_keys

NEVER _EVER_ work around this kind of problem by bypassing the code in
question in your driver.

ALWAYS work to fix the actual problem.
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