[PATCH] [Vivid][SRU] hv_netvsc: Clean up two unused variables

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Dec 4 13:56:08 UTC 2015


On 12/04/2015 05:02 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 12:19:09PM +0900, Seyeong Kim wrote:
>> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
>>
>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1521053
>>
>> The commit
>>
>> hv_netvsc: Clean up two unused variables
> 
> As this commit only removes unused variables, it is not at all clear how
> this could cause or fix network slowdowns.  The net effect is to remove
> 64 bytes from one structure, but this seems unlikely enough to cause
> significant performance issues.
> 
> How was it determined that this was the fix?
> 
> -apw

I'm with Andy on this one. How does this really fix the problem ?

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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