[PATCH net v5] net: axienet: do not report TX completions as NAPI work

patchwork-bot+netdevbpf at kernel.org patchwork-bot+netdevbpf at kernel.org
Wed Oct 7 16:50:08 PDT 2026


Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>:

On Sun,  4 Oct 2026 09:59:30 +0300 you wrote:
> axienet_tx_poll() reclaims every completed TX descriptor in one pass:
> it passes lp->tx_bd_num to axienet_free_tx_chain() as the descriptor
> limit, and @budget is only used as the napi_consume_skb() bulk-free
> hint.  It then returns the number of packets reclaimed, which is bounded
> by the ring size rather than by the budget, so the poll can report more
> work than it was given.  This was seen after TX completion interrupts
> had not been taken for a while and a full ring was reclaimed at once:
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,v5] net: axienet: do not report TX completions as NAPI work
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/f9d58127380a

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