netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] enic: Add support for adaptive interrupt coalescing

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Message-Id: <20140507.170043.896249393177676627.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 07 May 2014 17:00:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	_govind@....com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ssujith@...co.com, benve@...co.com,
	neepatel@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] enic: Add support for adaptive interrupt
 coalescing

From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>
Date: Tue,  6 May 2014 19:54:22 +0530

> From: Sujith Sankar <ssujith@...co.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sujith Sankar <ssujith@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>

Please never submit patches except absolutely the most extremely
trivial ones without a real commit log message explaining what
the change does, how it does it, and why you implemented it that
way.

> +enum hrtimer_restart enic_hrtimer_cb(struct hrtimer *timer)
> +{
> +	return HRTIMER_RESTART;
> +}

For example, I have no idea why in the world you need an hrtimer whose
function is a complete NOP if the networking hardware does the
interrupt coalescing for you.
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