linux-kernel - Re: [net-next PATCH v4 2/7] net: ravb: Consider busypolling status when re-enabling interrupts

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Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 19:47:20 +0300
From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
To: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@...renesas.com>, "David S. Miller"
	<davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@...natech.se>
CC: Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com>, Claudiu Beznea
	<claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>, Yoshihiro Shimoda
	<yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v4 2/7] net: ravb: Consider busypolling status
 when re-enabling interrupts

On 5/28/24 7:44 PM, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:

>> Make use of the busypolling status returned from NAPI complete to decide
> 
>    My spellchecker/translator trip over "busypolling" -- consider using
> "busy-polling"?
>    And did you actually mean napi_complete_done()?

   Ah, napi_complete() also returns a result... maybe this should be reworded
as "NAPI completion"?

>> if interrupts shall be re-enabled or not. This is useful to reduce the
>> interrupt overhead.
>>
>> While at it switch to using napi_complete_done() as it take into account
> 
>    Takes.
> 
>> the work done when providing the busypolling status.
> 
>    Again, "busy-polling"?
>  
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@...renesas.com>

[...]

MBR, Sergey