Re: [net-next RFC v3 2/7] net: ravb: Align poll function with NAPI docs

[Paul Barker]

On 15/04/2024 12:44, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Thanks for your work.
> 
> On 2024-04-15 10:47:59 +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
>> Call napi_complete_done() in accordance with the documentation in
>> `Documentation/networking/napi.rst`.
> 
> The way I understand it napi_complete() is still OK to use, it's just a 
> wrapper for napi_complete_done(napi, 0). But of course using 
> napi_complete_done() is better if you want to use the busypolling status 
> returned. Maybe the commit message can be updated to reflect this 
> change, how about?
> 
>     net: ravb: Consider busypolling status when re-enabling interrupts
> 
>     Make use of the busypolling status returned from NAPI complete to decide 
>     if interrupts shall be re-enabled or not. This is useful to reduce the 
>     interrupt overhead.
> 
>     While at it switch to using napi_complete_done() as it take into account 
>     the work done when providing the busypolling status.

That sounds good to me, especially as the motivation for this change was
to support busy polling/software IRQ coalescing. I'll update the commit
message in the next version of the series.

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker

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