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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Vishvambar Panth S <vishvambarpanth.s@microchip.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bryan.whitehead@microchip.com, UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
	andrew@lunn.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: microchip: lan743x : bidirectional throughuput improvement
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 13:09:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231004130957.2d633d03@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1f64c44-0d1c-480e-a272-fb017e7d8673@gmail.com>

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 13:02:17 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > Nobody complained for 5 years, and it's not a regression.
> > Let's not treat this as a fix, please repost without the Fixes tag for
> > net-next.  
> 
> As a driver maintainer, you may want to provide some guarantees to your 
> end users/customers that from stable version X.Y.Z the performance 
> issues have been fixed. Performance improvements are definitively border 
> line in terms of being considered as bug fixes though.

I understand that, but too often people just "feel like a device which
advertises X Mbps / Gbps should reach line rate" while no end user
cares.

Luckily stable rules are pretty clear about this (search for
"performance"): 
https://docs.kernel.org/process/stable-kernel-rules.html

As posted it doesn't fulfill the requirements 🤷️

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-04 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-27 11:16 [PATCH net] net: microchip: lan743x : bidirectional throughuput improvement Vishvambar Panth S
2023-09-29 17:35 ` Jacob Keller
2023-10-05  5:17   ` VishvambarPanth.S
2023-10-04 19:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-04 20:02   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-04 20:09     ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-11-01  7:20       ` VishvambarPanth.S
2023-11-09 10:53         ` VishvambarPanth.S
2023-11-09 23:04           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-16  5:49             ` VishvambarPanth.S

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