netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] forcedeth: optimize the rx with likely

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Message-Id: <20180102.133051.1847714216965897909.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:30:51 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     yanjun.zhu@...cle.com
Cc:     keescook@...omium.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] forcedeth: optimize the rx with likely

From: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@...cle.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 01:22:50 -0500

> In the rx fastpath, the function netdev_alloc_skb rarely fails.
> Therefore, a likely() optimization is added to this error check
> conditional.
> 
> CC: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.eeda@...cle.com>
> CC: Joe Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com>
> CC: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@...cle.com>

Applied.