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

From Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding packets
Date 2017-05-17 11:30 +0200
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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.

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[PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding packets Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com> - 2017-05-16 16:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding packets Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> - 2017-05-16 22:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding  packets Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-05-17 10:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding  packets Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com> - 2017-05-17 11:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding  packets Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-05-18 10:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 4.4-only] openvswitch: clear sender cpu before forwarding  packets Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com> - 2017-05-19 12:30 +0200

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