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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net] ixgbe: simplify padding and length checks
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:38:07 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:15:10 -0700

> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> 
> The check for length <= 0 is bogus because length is unsigned, and network
> stack never sends zero length packets (unless it is totally broken).
> 
> The check for really small packets can be optimized (using unlikely)
> and calling skb_pad directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

Not really fixing anything and more of a cleanup, so maybe 'net-next'
instead of 'net' for this guy instead?