From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753597AbaHUDZJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:25:09 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f182.google.com ([209.85.213.182]:65333 "EHLO mail-ig0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753362AbaHUDZH (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:25:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:25:01 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Mark Einon Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] staging: et131x: Implement NAPI support Message-ID: <20140820202501.558fdb3f@uryu.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <1408573078-9320-9-git-send-email-mark.einon@gmail.com> References: <1408573078-9320-1-git-send-email-mark.einon@gmail.com> <1408573078-9320-9-git-send-email-mark.einon@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:17:58 +0100 Mark Einon wrote: > > + if (budget > MAX_PACKETS_HANDLED) > + limit = MAX_PACKETS_HANDLED; Why this artificial restriction?