net: Clarify dev_weight documentation for LRO and GRO_HW.

Reported-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
index b67044a2575f51b9d24f85b1a58a2fe6075b3312..35c62f522754a79f8ecaba74dd8c84a038a8928f 100644 (file)
--- 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