netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: remove a dubious unlikely() clause

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Message-Id: <20160320.163219.2048951134824961876.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:32:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: remove a dubious unlikely() clause

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:27:47 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> TCP protocol is still used these days, and TCP uses
> clones in its transmit path. We can not optimize linux
> stack assuming it is mostly used in routers, or that TCP
> is dead.
> 
> Fixes: 795bb1c00d ("net: bulk free infrastructure for NAPI context, use napi_consume_skb")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>

Applied.