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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bonding, net: Move last_rx update into
 bonding recv logic
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:17:03 -0800 (PST)
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From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:13:09 -0800

> 
> 	The only user of the net_device->last_rx field is bonding.  This
> patch adds a conditional update of last_rx to the bonding special logic
> in skb_bond_should_drop, causing last_rx to only be updated when the ARP
> monitor is running.
> 
> 	This frees network device drivers from the necessity of updating
> last_rx, which can have cache line thrash issues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>

Applied, thanks a lot Jay.