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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 20:14:40 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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On Wed,  9 Oct 2024 00:54:58 +0000 Joe Damato wrote:
> +        name: gro-flush-timeout
> +        doc: The timeout, in nanoseconds, of when to trigger the NAPI
> +             watchdog timer and schedule NAPI processing.

You gotta respin because we reformatted the cacheline info.

So while at it perhaps throw in a sentence here about the GRO effects?
The initial use of GRO flush timeout was to hold incomplete GRO
super-frames in the GRO engine across NAPI cycles.