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

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Message-ID: <e0b9b5a3-8e07-12d6-a259-2ec00041ac04@mellanox.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:35:38 +0200
From:   Tal Gilboa <talgi@...lanox.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.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 3/21/2018 8:33 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 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,
> 
lines' length and spelling mistakes fixed. See V2.
Thanks for the feedback.