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authorMichael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>2017-12-19 16:12:56 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-12-20 13:04:01 -0500
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net: Clarify dev_weight documentation for LRO and GRO_HW.
Reported-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
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@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ dev_weight
--------------
The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI interrupt,
-it's a Per-CPU variable.
+it's a Per-CPU variable. For drivers that support LRO or GRO_HW, a hardware
+aggregated packet is counted as one packet in this context.
+
Default: 64
dev_weight_rx_bias