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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:27:03 +0100

> Down in the driver layer (RX), I think it is too early to categorize
> Related/Unrelated SKB's, because we want to delay touching packet-data
> as long as possible (waiting for the prefetcher to get data into
> cache).

You don't need to touch the headers in order to have a good idea
as to whether there is a strong possibility packets are related
or not.

We have the hash available.