netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Clarify dev_weight documentation for LRO and GRO

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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:26:03 -0200
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Clarify dev_weight documentation for LRO
 and GRO_HW.

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 04:12:56PM -0500, Michael Chan wrote:
> Reported-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>

Thanks!

> ---
>  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
>