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

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 20:09:06 +0100
From: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@...renesas.com>
To: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>, "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 28/05/2024 17:47, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> 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"?

Ack to all of the above.

I used the commit message suggested by Niklas here. I'll revise it a
little for v5...

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker
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