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

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Message-ID: <3d949ca4-45c4-e349-b3ff-946561b9ef17@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:33:23 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        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 03/21/2018 11:20 AM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> 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
> 
> Some lines are above 80 chars. Please format the text so they don't exceed it.

Agreed.

thanks,
-- 
~Randy