netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bonding: refine IFF_XMIT_DST

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Message-Id: <20120718.093238.1442501054674720136.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:32:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fubar@...ibm.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
	therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bonding: refine IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE
 capability

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:19:48 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Some workloads greatly benefit of IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability
> on output net device, avoiding dirtying dst refcount.
> 
> bonding currently disables IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE unconditionally.
> 
> If all slaves have the IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE bit set, then
> bonding master can also have it in its priv_flags
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.
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