netdev - Re: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen.

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Message-ID: <20081031201016.GA4748@ioremap.net>
Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:10:16 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi,
	rjw@...k.pl, mingo@...e.hu, s0mbre@...rvice.net.ru,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, efault@....de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:57:13PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger (shemminger@...tta.com) wrote:
> Why bother with last_rx at all on loopback.  I have been thinking
> we should figure out a way to get rid of last_rx all together. It only
> seems to be used by bonding, and the bonding driver could do the calculation
> in its receive handling.

Not related to the regression: bug will be just papered out by this
changes. Having bonding on loopback is somewhat strange idea, but still
this kind of changes is an attempt to make a good play in the bad game:
this loopback-only optimization does not fix the problem.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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