netdev - Re: [PATCH v5] net: ethernet: add driver for Aurora VLSI NB8800 Ethernet controller

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Message-ID: <1447192280.17135.83.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:51:20 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, slash.tmp@...e.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net: ethernet: add driver for Aurora VLSI NB8800
 Ethernet controller

On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 21:21 +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Even ixgbe uses napi_complete() while netdevice.h says one should
> "consider using napi_complete_done() instead."  Did the author consider
> it and decide not to, or has the driver simply not been updated?

napi_complete_done() is quite new, very few drivers use it.

It still requires a tuning (/sys/class/net/ethX/gro_flush_timeout)

> 
> As for the napi_gro_receive() function, calling that instead of
> netif_receive_skb() is easy enough, or are there other things I should
> be doing in addition?

Nothing comes to mind, if you already have a NAPI context,
napi_gro_receive() is the way to go...



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