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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/9] Handle multiple received packets at
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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 14:09:03 +0900 (KST)
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From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:11:36 +0100

> This patch series adds the capability for the network stack to receive a
>  list of packets and process them as a unit, rather than handling each
>  packet singly in sequence.  This is done by factoring out the existing
>  datapath code at each layer and wrapping it in list handling code.
 ...

This is really nice stuff.

I'll apply this, but please work on the ipv6 side too.

I hope that driver maintainers take a look at using the new
netif_receive_skb_list() interface and see how much it helps
performance with their devices.

Thanks!