netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] sfc: Feed GRO result into RX allocation policy and interrupt moderation

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Message-Id: <20091029.213316.239341636.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:33:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] sfc: Feed GRO result into RX allocation policy and
 interrupt moderation

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:21:24 +0000

> When GRO is successfully merging received packets, we should allocate
> raw page buffers rather than skbs that will be discarded by GRO.
> Otherwise, we should allocate skbs.
> 
> GRO also benefits from higher interrupt moderation, so increase the
> score for mergeable RX packets.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

I'll pull net-2.6 into net-next-2.6 before applying this patch and the
next one.

But you need to tell me that such dependencies exist when you submit
patches like this, ok?
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