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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:22:22 -0700

> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> wrote:
>> by the time these devices use 4.12 kernels they are likely powerful
>> enough to make header prediction irrelevant...
> 
> Also note that TCP stack complexity has increased a lot, I seriously
> doubt anyone could notice any difference.
> 
> On small devices, the major cost is the wakeup of the cpu to process
> one frame before going back to idle...

I agree with Yuchung and Eric on all counts.