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From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: Clarify dev_weight documentation for LRO and GRO_HW.
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:12:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1513717976-24263-1-git-send-email-michael.chan@broadcom.com> (raw)

Reported-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/net.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
index b67044a..35c62f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ dev_weight
 --------------
 
 The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI interrupt,
-it's a Per-CPU variable.
+it's a Per-CPU variable. For drivers that support LRO or GRO_HW, a hardware
+aggregated packet is counted as one packet in this context.
+
 Default: 64
 
 dev_weight_rx_bias
-- 
1.8.3.1

             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-19 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-19 21:12 Michael Chan [this message]
2017-12-19 22:26 ` [PATCH net-next] net: Clarify dev_weight documentation for LRO and GRO_HW Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2017-12-20 18:04 ` David Miller

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