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Message-ID: <1285481398.2436.7.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:09:58 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, romieu@...zoreil.com,
sgruszka@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 -next] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when
able to sleep
Le dimanche 26 septembre 2010 à 00:33 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 11:12 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> [...]
> > The r8169 current problem is its currently copying all incoming frames.
> > I guess nobody cares or noticed the performance drop.
> > (But commit c0cd884a is recent (2.6.34), this is not yet in
> > production...)
>
> Since that was a security fix it was backported to 2.6.32.12 and
> probably most distribution kernels. So yes it is in production.
Maybe in your company, not a single machine in mine ;)
Most linux servers in production run much older kernels.
rhel 5 -> 2.6.18
debian 5 -> 2.6.26.x
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