netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: napi: addition of napi_defer_hard

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Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:43:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, lrizzo@...gle.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: napi: addition of
 napi_defer_hard_irqs

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:13:26 -0700

> This patch series augments gro_glush_timeout feature with napi_defer_hard_irqs
> 
> As extensively described in first patch changelog, this can suppresss
> the chit-chat traffic between NIC and host to signal interrupts and re-arming
> them, since this can be an issue on high speed NIC with many queues.
> 
> The last patch in this series converts mlx4 TX completion to
> napi_complete_done(), to enable this new mechanism.

Series applied, thanks Eric.