Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding packets

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu May 18 2017 - 04:12:17 EST


On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:21:09AM +0100, Anoob Soman wrote:
> 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.

So backporting that one patch solves the issue here? Can you please
verify it, and let me know before I apply it?

thanks,

greg k-h