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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tariqt@mellanox.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eranbe@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/9] net/mlx4_en: Add branch prediction hints in RX data-path
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:35:18 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160908.133518.682601752079656938.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473324721-5206-2-git-send-email-tariqt@mellanox.com>

From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2016 11:51:53 +0300

> Add likely/unlikely hints to improve branch predictions
> in the RX data-path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>

This is absolutely not appropriate for 'net'.  This is not a bug
fix, it is a feature/enhancement.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-08 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-08  8:51 [PATCH net 0/9] mlx4 fixes Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08  8:51 ` [PATCH net 1/9] net/mlx4_en: Add branch prediction hints in RX data-path Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08 20:35   ` David Miller [this message]
2016-09-08  8:51 ` [PATCH net 2/9] net/mlx4_en: Fix wrong indentation Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08 20:35   ` David Miller
2016-09-08  8:51 ` [PATCH net 3/9] net/mlx4_en: Fix the return value of mlx4_en_dcbnl_set_all() Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08  8:51 ` [PATCH net 4/9] net/mlx4_en: Fix the return value of mlx4_en_dcbnl_set_state() Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08  8:51 ` [PATCH net 5/9] net/mlx4_en: Fixes for DCBX Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08  8:51 ` [PATCH net 6/9] net/mlx4_core: Use RCU to perform radix tree lookup for SRQ Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08 20:36   ` David Miller
2016-09-11  7:27     ` Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08  8:51 ` [PATCH net 7/9] net/mlx4_core: Fix deadlock when switching between polling and event fw commands Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08  8:52 ` [PATCH net 8/9] net/mlx4_core: Fix to clean devlink resources Tariq Toukan
2016-09-08  8:52 ` [PATCH net 9/9] net/mlx4_en: Fix panic on xmit while port is down Tariq Toukan

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