netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison

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Message-Id: <20090218.175513.255155958.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:55:13 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	krikku@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, krkumar2@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison

From: Krishna Kumar <krikku@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:16 +0530

> Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison that executes for
> every packet. skb_tx_hashrnd initialization is moved to a later part of
> the startup sequence, namely after the "random" driver is initialized.
> 
> Rebooted the system three times and verified that the code generates
> different random numbers each time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thank you!
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