Re: Linux 4.9-rc6

[Eric Dumazet]

On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 03:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Dec 4, 2016 02:43, "Thorsten Leemhuis" <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>         
>         What the status of below patch? From the discussion it looks a
>         lot like
>         it was developed to fix a regression in 4.9, but the patch
>         afaics has
>         neither his mainline or linux-next yet. 
> 
> 
> It's not a regression as far as I can tell. It's a small optimization.
> Maybe.
> 
> 
> It's not going into 4.9, is not even clear it's worth it later either,
> unless somebody had numbers (which I haven't seen)
> 
Right, the patch was not in anyway ready for 4.9 ;)

I'll try to complete this for next cycle.

Thanks.