Message ID | 1362535042.15793.144.camel@edumazet-glaptop |
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State | Accepted, archived |
Delegated to: | David Miller |
Headers | show |
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:57:22 -0800 > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> > > Some drivers use a too big NAPI poll weight. > > This patch adds a NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT default value > and issues an error message if a driver attempts > to use a bigger weight. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> > Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index b3d00fa..896eb49 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1475,6 +1475,11 @@ static inline void *netdev_priv(const struct net_device *dev) */ #define SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE(net, devtype) ((net)->dev.type = (devtype)) +/* Default NAPI poll() weight + * Device drivers are strongly advised to not use bigger value + */ +#define NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT 64 + /** * netif_napi_add - initialize a napi context * @dev: network device diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index a06a7a5..9610389 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -4057,6 +4057,9 @@ void netif_napi_add(struct net_device *dev, struct napi_struct *napi, napi->gro_list = NULL; napi->skb = NULL; napi->poll = poll; + if (weight > NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT) + pr_err_once("netif_napi_add() called with weight %d on device %s\n", + weight, dev->name); napi->weight = weight; list_add(&napi->dev_list, &dev->napi_list); napi->dev = dev;