From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montj...@gmail.com> 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 <clabbe.montj...@gmail.com> >> 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.
