From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/17] net: stmmac: Implement NAPI for TX Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 10:15:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20170203.101530.2022314159293725201.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170131091152.13842-14-clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> <20170131.231225.59679013563845652.davem@davemloft.net> <20170203134145.GB3653@Red> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170203134145.GB3653@Red> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Corentin Labbe Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 14:41:45 +0100 > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:12:25PM -0500, David Miller wrote: >> From: Corentin Labbe >> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:11:48 +0100 >> >> > The stmmac driver run TX completion under NAPI but without checking >> > the work done by the TX completion function. >> >> The current behavior is correct and completely intentional. >> >> A driver should _never_ account TX work to the NAPI poll budget. >> >> This is because TX liberation is orders of magnitude cheaper than >> receiving a packet, and such SKB freeing makes more SKBs available >> for RX processing. >> >> Therefore, TX work should never count against the NAPI budget. >> >> Please do not fix something which is not broken. > > So at least the documentation I read must be fixed (https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/napi) We have no control over nor care about what the Linux Foundation writes about the Linux networking code. Complain to them and please do not bother us about it. Thank you.