Re: [PATCH 6/13] forcedeth: add/modify tx done with limit

[Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:02:10 -0500
> 
> 
>>There are two tx_done routines to handle tx completion processing. Both these functions now take in a limit value and return the amount of tx completions. This will be used by a future patch to determine the total amount of work done.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
> 
> 
> Applied.
> 
> But I would absolutely not count TX completion processing in the
> NAPI work limit as you do in one of the subsequent patches.
> 

I agree. However, I am counting tx work only for the purpose of 
interrupt moderation.  The tx work count is not included in the NAPI 
limit check.
ie.

+	nv_change_interrupt_mode(dev, tx_work + rx_work);

-	if (pkts < budget) {
+	if (rx_work < budget) {


> TX completely is just buffer freeing, very cheap.
> 
> Whereas RX processing involves actually network stack processing
> which is real work and is what NAPI should be limiting.
> 
> Also, please get rid of the NAPI config option for this driver and
> make NAPI unconditionally enabled.
> 

Sure, I will submit a new patch for removing the config option.

> Thanks.

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