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From: Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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: Wed, 17 May 2017 10:21:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <371bcd34-10fa-867f-8bfb-7f61caf11cbe@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170517081933.GA25610@kroah.com>

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.

I think backport might be required for 4.1 as well, but I haven't checked.

-Anoob.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-17  9:21 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 [this message]
2017-05-18  8:11     ` Greg KH
2017-05-19 10:28       ` Anoob Soman
2017-05-21  8:47 ` kbuild test robot

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