linux-kernel - Re: [net-next v5 4/9] netdev-genl: Dump gro_flush

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Message-ID: <20241009201440.418e21de@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 20:14:40 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Joe Damato <jdamato@...tly.com>
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Subject: Re: [net-next v5 4/9] netdev-genl: Dump gro_flush_timeout

On Wed,  9 Oct 2024 00:54:58 +0000 Joe Damato wrote:
> +        name: gro-flush-timeout
> +        doc: The timeout, in nanoseconds, of when to trigger the NAPI
> +             watchdog timer and schedule NAPI processing.

You gotta respin because we reformatted the cacheline info.

So while at it perhaps throw in a sentence here about the GRO effects?
The initial use of GRO flush timeout was to hold incomplete GRO
super-frames in the GRO engine across NAPI cycles.