netdev - Re: [patch net-next] team: refine IFF_XMIT_DST

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:28:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	jiri@...nulli.us, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] team: refine IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:17:34 +0200

> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 19:39 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Cloned patch of Eric Dumazet for bonding.
>> 
>> Some workloads greatly benefit of IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability
>> on output net device, avoiding dirtying dst refcount.
>> 
>> team currently disables IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE unconditionally.
>> 
>> If all ports have the IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE bit set, then
>> team dev can also have it in its priv_flags.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/team/team.c |    5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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