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Eric Dumazet says:

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net: napi: addition of napi_defer_hard_irqs

This patch series augments gro_glush_timeout feature with napi_defer_hard_irqs

As extensively described in first patch changelog, this can suppresss
the chit-chat traffic between NIC and host to signal interrupts and re-arming
them, since this can be an issue on high speed NIC with many queues.

The last patch in this series converts mlx4 TX completion to
napi_complete_done(), to enable this new mechanism.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller 2020-04-23 12:43:20 -07:00
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