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    ethernet/intel: consolidate NAPI and NAPI exit · 0bcd952f
    Jesse Brandeburg authored
    While reviewing code, I noticed that Eric Dumazet recommends that
    drivers check the return code of napi_complete_done, and use that
    to decide to enable interrupts or not when exiting poll.  One of
    the Intel drivers was already fixed (ixgbe).
    
    Upon looking at the Intel drivers as a whole, we are handling our
    polling and NAPI exit in a few different ways based on whether we
    have multiqueue and whether we have Tx cleanup included. Several
    drivers had the bug of exiting NAPI with return 0, which appears
    to mess up the accounting in the stack.
    
    Consolidate all the NAPI routines to do best known way of exiting
    and to just mostly look like each other.
    1) check return code of napi_complete_done to control interrupt enable
    2) return the actual amount of work done.
    3) return budget immediately if need NAPI poll again
    
    Tested the changes on e1000e with a high interrupt rate set, and
    it shows about an 8% reduction in the CPU utilization when busy
    polling because we aren't re-enabling interrupts when we're about
    to be polled.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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