From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:12:56 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: net: Clarify dev_weight documentation for LRO and GRO_HW.
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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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
index b67044a2575f..35c62f522754 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ dev_weight
 --------------
 
 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.
+
 Default: 64
 
 dev_weight_rx_bias