Commit e9c6a586 authored by Stanislaw Gruszka's avatar Stanislaw Gruszka Committed by David S. Miller

net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget

The NAPI poll parameter netdev_budget is not documented in
kernel-docs. Since it may have a substantial effect on at least some
network loads, it should be.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> 
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 69145635
...@@ -1478,6 +1478,13 @@ of problems on the network like duplicate address or bad checksums. Normally, ...@@ -1478,6 +1478,13 @@ of problems on the network like duplicate address or bad checksums. Normally,
this should be enabled, but if the problem persists the messages can be this should be enabled, but if the problem persists the messages can be
disabled. disabled.
netdev_budget
-------------
Maximum number of packets taken from all interfaces in one polling cycle (NAPI
poll). In one polling cycle interfaces which are registered to polling are
probed in a round-robin manner. The limit of packets in one such probe can be
set per-device via sysfs class/net/<device>/weight .
netdev_max_backlog netdev_max_backlog
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