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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>
Michael Chan 7 years ago
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@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ dev_weight
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 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.
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 Default: 64
 
 dev_weight_rx_bias