From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, pshelar@nicira.com, davem@davemloft.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding packets
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 10:11:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170518081149.GA31512@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <371bcd34-10fa-867f-8bfb-7f61caf11cbe@citrix.com>
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:21:09AM +0100, Anoob Soman wrote:
> On 17/05/17 09:19, Greg KH wrote:
> > Why is this a non-upstream patch? What commit in Linus's tree fixed
> > this? Why not just backport that?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Agreed, I think it is sensible to backport 52bd2d62ce67 "net: better
> skb->sender_cpu and skb->napi_id cohabitation" to 4.4, rather than having a
> different patch.
So backporting that one patch solves the issue here? Can you please
verify it, and let me know before I apply it?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-18 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-16 14:25 [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding packets Anoob Soman
2017-05-16 19:55 ` Joe Stringer
2017-05-17 8:19 ` Greg KH
2017-05-17 9:21 ` Anoob Soman
2017-05-18 8:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-05-19 10:28 ` Anoob Soman
2017-05-21 8:47 ` kbuild test robot
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