netdev - NAPI on USB network drivers

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Message-ID: <1485336881.16604.2.camel@suse.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:34:41 +0100
From:   Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:     Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: NAPI on USB network drivers

Hi,

looking at r8152 I noticed that it uses NAPI. I never considered
this for the generic USB networking code as you cannot disable
interrupts for USB. Is it still worth it? What are the benefits?

	Regards
		Oliver