netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation/networking: Add net DIM documentation

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Message-ID: <20180321182028.GC4831@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:20:28 -0300
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Tal Gilboa <talgi@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation/networking: Add net DIM
 documentation

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:30:29AM +0200, Tal Gilboa wrote:
...
> +Dynamic Interrupt Moderation (DIM) (in networking) refers to changing the interrupt
> +moderation configuration of a channel in order to optimize packet processing.
> +The mechanism includes an algorithm which decides if and how to change
> +moderation parameters for a channel, usually by performing an analysis on
> +runtime data sampled from the system. Net DIM is such a mechanism. In each
> +iteration of the algorithm, it analyses a given sample of the data, compares it to
> +the previous sample and if required, is can decide to change some of the interrupt moderation

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