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.
next prev parent 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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