many rx packets dropped since 2.6.37

[Chris]

Hello,

There is a bug since 2.6.37 with dropped rx packets in virtual
environments (like kvm) and bonded network interfaces.

References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/890475
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709551

This change has led to:
commit caf586e5f23cebb2a68cbaf288d59dbbf2d74052
Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Sep 30 21:06:55 2010 +0000

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=caf586e5f23cebb2a68cbaf288d59dbbf2d74052
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8990f468a

Would it be possible to remove this patch?

--
Chris
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