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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCN net-next] net: use jump_label for netstamp_needed
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:47:46 -0500 (EST)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:12:55 +0100

> netstamp_needed seems a good candidate to jump_label conversion.
> 
> This avoids 3 conditional branches per incoming packet in fast path.
> 
> No measurable difference, given that these conditional branches are
> predicted on modern cpus. Only a small icache reduction, thanks to the
> unlikely() stuff.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied.