linux/drivers/net
Amir Vadai fbc6daf197 net/mlx4_en: Ignore budget on TX napi polling
It is recommended that TX work not count against the quota.
The cost of TX packet liberation is a minute percentage of what it costs to
process an RX frame. Furthermore, that SKB freeing makes memory available for
other paths in the stack.

Give the TX a larger budget and be more aggressive about cleaning up the Tx
descriptors this budget could be changed using ethtool:
$ ethtool -C eth1 tx-frames-irq <budget>

Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-08 20:00:49 -07:00
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appletalk
arcnet
bonding bonding: Advertize vxlan offload features when supported 2014-06-18 16:49:51 -07:00
caif
can slcan: Port write_wakeup deadlock fix from slip 2014-06-16 21:29:13 -07:00
cris
dsa net: dsa: update DSA drivers to use ds_to_priv 2014-04-30 13:31:25 -04:00
ethernet net/mlx4_en: Ignore budget on TX napi polling 2014-07-08 20:00:49 -07:00
fddi defxx: Fix !DYNAMIC_BUFFERS compilation warnings 2014-07-02 18:26:29 -07:00
hamradio yam: replace del_timer by del_timer_sync 2014-03-27 15:28:06 -04:00
hippi
hyperv hyperv: fix apparent cut-n-paste error in send path teardown 2014-06-16 21:36:13 -07:00
ieee802154 at86rf230: fix irq setup 2014-06-22 18:04:03 -07:00
irda Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
phy net: fix circular dependency in of_mdio code 2014-07-02 00:24:14 -07:00
plip
ppp inetpeer: get rid of ip_id_count 2014-06-02 11:00:41 -07:00
slip slip: Fix deadlock in write_wakeup 2014-06-16 21:29:12 -07:00
team Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-06-03 23:32:12 -07:00
usb r8152: wake up the device before dumping the hw counter 2014-07-08 19:41:43 -07:00
vmxnet3 vmxnet3: adjust ring sizes when interface is down 2014-06-16 21:26:40 -07:00
wan farsync: Fix confusion about DMA address and buffer offset types 2014-06-11 00:45:29 -07:00
wimax net: wimax: i2400m: control.c: Cleaning up conjunction always evaluates to false 2014-06-11 00:13:16 -07:00
wireless Merge branch 'ath-current' of git://github.com/kvalo/ath 2014-06-26 11:39:36 -04:00
xen-netback xen-netback: bookkeep number of active queues in our own module 2014-06-25 15:59:47 -07:00
dummy.c
eql.c
ifb.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-03-29 18:48:54 -04:00
Kconfig
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c
macvlan.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-06-11 16:02:55 -07:00
macvtap.c mactap: Fix checksum errors for non-gso packets in bridge mode 2014-04-30 16:12:22 -04:00
Makefile
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c
nlmon.c net: nlmon: flag nlmon devs with LLTX/SG 2014-03-28 16:49:47 -04:00
ntb_netdev.c net: use ethtool_cmd_speed_set helper to set ethtool speed value 2014-06-06 16:24:07 -07:00
rionet.c net: get rid of SET_ETHTOOL_OPS 2014-05-13 17:43:20 -04:00
sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c
tun.c net-tun: restructure tun_do_read for better sleep/wakeup efficiency 2014-05-21 15:50:28 -04:00
veth.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-03-29 18:48:54 -04:00
virtio_net.c net: get rid of SET_ETHTOOL_OPS 2014-05-13 17:43:20 -04:00
vxlan.c vxlan: Checksum fixes 2014-06-15 01:00:50 -07:00
xen-netfront.c xen-netfront: call netif_carrier_off() only once when disconnecting 2014-07-08 11:21:03 -07:00