From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758916AbZCPMmk (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:42:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754529AbZCPMm2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:42:28 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:37524 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753378AbZCPMm2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:42:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:36:33 +0100 From: Stanislaw Gruszka To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget Message-ID: <20090316133633.2df4ed3e@dhcp-lab-109.englab.brq.redhat.com> Organization: RedHat Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a87be42..830bad7 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -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 +------------- + +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//weight . netdev_max_backlog ------------------ -- 1.5.5.6