netdev - Re: [PATCH v12 06/17] Use callback to deal with skb_release

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Message-Id: <20101011.082728.193709462.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:27:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiaohui.xin@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, jdike@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 06/17] Use callback to deal with skb_release_data()
 specially.

From: "Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:06:05 +0800

> That's to avoid the new cache miss caused by using destructor_arg in data path
> like skb_release_data().
> That's based on the comment from Eric Dumazet on v7 patches.

Thanks for the explanation.
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