Commit e9c6a586 authored by Stanislaw Gruszka's avatar Stanislaw Gruszka Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

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@@ -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

disabled.



netdev_budget

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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

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