From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:29:57 +0000 (-0700) Subject: net: eliminate refcounting in backlog queue X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc2~2^2~11 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e583ce5242f32e925dcb198f7123256d0798370;p=pandora-kernel.git net: eliminate refcounting in backlog queue Avoid the overhead of atomic increment/decrement on each received packet. This helps performance of non-NAPI devices (like loopback). Use cleanup function to walk queue on each cpu and clean out any left over packets. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed