From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [patch net-next] team: refine IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:17:34 +0200 Message-ID: <1342635454.2626.3337.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1342633178-1411-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com To: Jiri Pirko Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:56186 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755353Ab2GRSRj (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:17:39 -0400 Received: by yhmm54 with SMTP id m54so1879718yhm.19 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:17:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1342633178-1411-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 19:39 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Cloned patch of Eric Dumazet for bonding. > > Some workloads greatly benefit of IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability > on output net device, avoiding dirtying dst refcount. > > team currently disables IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE unconditionally. > > If all ports have the IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE bit set, then > team dev can also have it in its priv_flags. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko > --- > drivers/net/team/team.c | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Thanks