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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:47:32 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To:     "Limonciello, Mario" <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: Error 'netif_napi_add_weight() called with weight 256'
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:23:47 -0500
"Limonciello, Mario" <mario.limonciello@amd.com> wrote:

> On 7/31/2023 1:13 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:02:40 -0500 Limonciello, Mario wrote:  
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I noticed today with 6.5-rc4 and also on 6.1.42 that I'm getting an
> >> error from an r8152 based dongle (Framework ethernet expansion card).
> >>
> >> netif_napi_add_weight() called with weight 256
> >>
> >> It seems that this message is likely introduced by
> >> 8ded532cd1cbe ("r8152: switch to netif_napi_add_weight()")
> >>
> >> which if the card has support_2500full set will program the value to 256:
> >>
> >> 	netif_napi_add_weight(netdev, &tp->napi, r8152_poll,
> >> 			      tp->support_2500full ? 256 : 64);
> >>
> >> It's err level from
> >> 82dc3c63c692b ("net: introduce NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT")
> >>
> >> Why is this considered an error but the driver uses the bigger value?
> >> Should it be downgraded to a warning?  
> > 
> > Could you double check that the warning wasn't there before? The code
> > added by commit 195aae321c82 ("r8152: support new chips") in 5.13 looks
> > very much equivalent.  
> 
> Yeah; looking through the history I agree it was probably was there from 
> the beginning of being introduced.
> 
> 6.1 is the earliest kernel that is usable with this laptop (for other 
> reasons).
> 
> > The custom weight is probably due to a misunderstanding. We have 200G
> > adapters using the standard weight of 64, IDK why 2.5G adapter would
> > need anything special.  
> 
> Perhaps Hayes Wang can comment on this (as the author of 195aae321c82).
> 

Large NAPI weights mean that one busy device (DOS attack) can starve the
system. Really doubt that > 64 makes any visible difference in throughput.