Re: [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses

[Roman Kagan]

On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 06:15 +0400, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:43:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Jeff Kirsher <tarbal@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:38:17 -0700
> > 
> > > Thanks! I have applied the patch to my queue
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > My impression is that this is a patch already in the tree, and it's
> > being submitted for -stable but such minor performance hacks are
> > absolutely not appropriate for -stable submission.
> 
> The patch description says it is fixing reported oopses,

Exactly.

> but the Subject: isn't all that helpful there.

Well I just preserved the original subject from the upstream commit.
Want me to resubmit with a more alarming one?

> So which is this?  Should I accept it for a stable release or not?

IMO yes ;)

Thanks,
Roman.
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