netdev - Re: [PATCH] sched: Optimize return value of qdisc

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Message-ID: <20070510135220.GA26655@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 23:52:20 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, krkumar2@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Optimize return value of qdisc_restart

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:18:04AM -0400, jamal wrote:
> 
> I wonder how much performance improvement this give now that the extra
> incursion into qdisc_restart is avoided.

Probably very little since the only way it can make a difference is if
there is lots of contention.  But if there is lots of contention we
should stay in the function anyway.

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