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

this should be enabled, but if the problem persists the messages can be

disabled.

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

netdev_max_backlog

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