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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, tarbal@gmail.com,
	rkagan@parallels.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, bruce.w.allan@intel.com,
	carolyn.wyborny@intel.com, donald.c.skidmore@intel.com,
	gregory.v.rose@intel.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com,
	dnelson@redhat.com, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:15:42 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120608021542.GA10112@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120607.144358.1732928576389957779.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:43:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <tarbal@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:38:17 -0700
> 
> > Thanks! I have applied the patch to my queue
> 
> Why?
> 
> My impression is that this is a patch already in the tree, and it's
> being submitted for -stable but such minor performance hacks are
> absolutely not appropriate for -stable submission.

The patch description says it is fixing reported oopses, but the
Subject: isn't all that helpful there.

So which is this?  Should I accept it for a stable release or not?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-08  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-07 12:49 [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses Roman Kagan
2012-06-07 21:38 ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-06-07 21:43   ` David Miller
2012-06-07 22:02     ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-06-07 22:02       ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-06-08  2:15     ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-06-08  7:37       ` Roman Kagan
2012-06-08  7:37         ` Roman Kagan
2012-06-08  7:37         ` Roman Kagan
2012-06-13 11:12         ` Roman Kagan
2012-06-13 11:12           ` Roman Kagan
2012-06-13 11:12           ` Roman Kagan
2012-06-14 22:30           ` Greg KH
2012-06-14 22:30             ` Greg KH

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