From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qt0-f179.google.com ([209.85.216.179]:38428 "EHLO mail-qt0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752186AbeCUSUf (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:20:35 -0400 Received: by mail-qt0-f179.google.com with SMTP id n12so6260711qtl.5 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:20:28 -0300 From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner To: Tal Gilboa Cc: "David S. Miller" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Tariq Toukan Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation/networking: Add net DIM documentation Message-ID: <20180321182028.GC4831@localhost.localdomain> References: <1521624629-46666-1-git-send-email-talgi@mellanox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1521624629-46666-1-git-send-email-talgi@mellanox.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. M.