netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] gro: __napi_gro

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Message-ID: <20100825134547.0ecc4f11@nehalam>
Date:	Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:45:47 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] gro: __napi_gro_receive() optimizations

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:33:51 +0200
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> compare_ether_header() can have a special implementation on 64 bit
> arches if CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is defined
> 
> __napi_gro_receive() can avoid a conditional branch to perform device
> match.
> 
> __napi_gro_receive() can be used from vlan_gro_common() instead of being
> duplicated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Please, 2 patches. not mixing unrelated bits in one patch.
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