netdev - [PATCH net-next 0/2] Improvements to the DSA deferred xmit

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Date:   Fri, 27 Dec 2019 03:42:06 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Improvements to the DSA deferred xmit

The DSA deferred xmit mechanism is currently used by a single driver
(sja1105) because the transmission of some operations requires SPI
access in the fastpath.

This 2-patch series makes this mechanism better for everybody:

- For those who don't use it, thanks to one less assignment in the
  hotpath
- For those who do, by making its scheduling more amenable and moving it
  outside the generic workqueue (since it still deals with packet
  hotpath, after all)

Vladimir Oltean (2):
  net: dsa: Remove deferred_xmit from dsa_skb_cb
  net: dsa: Create a kernel thread for each port's deferred xmit work

 include/net/dsa.h |  4 ++--
 net/dsa/slave.c   | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

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2.17.1