linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v1 1/2] lan743x: improve performance: fix rx_napi

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Date:   Tue, 8 Dec 2020 19:17:24 -0500
From:   Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whitehead@...rochip.com>,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
        David S Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1 1/2] lan743x: improve performance: fix
 rx_napi_poll/interrupt ping-pong

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:50 PM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Driver could be called with an arbitrary budget (of 64),
> and if its ring buffer has been depleted, return @budget instead of skb counts,
> and not ream the interrupt
>

Aha, so the decision to re-arm the interrupts is made by looking
at whether the device has run out of ring buffers to fill... instead
of checking whether the weight was reached !

That makes complete sense.
Thank you Eric and Jakub for your expert suggestions.