netdev - Re: [PATCH] rps: keep the old behavior on SMP without rps

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Message-Id: <20100401.184457.00383135.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:44:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiaosuo@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rps: keep the old behavior on SMP without rps

From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:16:22 +0800

> keep the old behavior on SMP without rps
> 
> RPS introduces a lock operation to per cpu variable input_pkt_queue on
> SMP whenever rps is enabled or not. On SMP without RPS, this lock isn't
> needed at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>

Applied.
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