Subject: Re: [net-next 03/10] ixgbe: Drop the TX work limit and instead just leave it to budget

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:01:44 +0100

On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 00:29 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <[email-masked]>
> 
> This change makes it so that the TX work limit is now obsolete.  Instead of
> using it we can instead rely on the NAPI budget for the number of packets
> we should clean per interrupt.  The advantage to this approach is that it
> results in a much more balanced work flow since the same number of RX and
> TX packets should be cleaned per interrupts.
[...]

This seems kind of sensible, but it's not how Dave has been recommending
people to account for TX work in NAPI.

Ben.

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