netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: eliminate refcounting in backlog queue

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Message-Id: <20080803.213009.103189993.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:30:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: eliminate refcounting in backlog queue

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:32:12 -0700

> Avoid the overhead of atomic increment/decrement on each received packet.
> This helps performance of non-NAPI devices (like loopback).
> Use cleanup function to walk queue on each cpu and clean out any
> left over packets.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Looks good, applied, thanks Stephen.
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