netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] eth: switch to netif_napi_add

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Date:   Thu, 12 May 2022 08:27:52 +0100
From:   Martin Habets <habetsm.xilinx@...il.com>
To:     Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] eth: switch to netif_napi_add_weight()

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:02:44PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote:
> On 11/05/2022 20:45, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 May 2022 18:57:53 +0100 Edward Cree wrote:
> >> This isn't really a custom weight; napi_weight is initialised to
> >>  64 and never changed, so probably we ought to be just using
> >>  NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT here and end up on the non-_weight API.
> >> Same goes for Falcon.
> > 
> > Ack, I wanted to be nice. I figured this must be a stub for a module
> > param in your our of tree driver.
> 
> I mean, it *is*... but there's almost certainly a better way.  Configuring
>  NAPI weight for tuning purposes (as opposed to some kind of correctness
>  limitation in a driver) probably ought to be left to generic infrastructure
>  rather than vendor-specific modparams in driver code.
> 
> > Should I send a patch to remove
> > the non-const static napi_weight globals and switch back to non-_weight?
> 
> Yes please, unless Martin has any objections...?

Fine for me.

Martin