From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:17:02 +0200

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> - There is no point to enforce a time limit in process_backlog(), since
> other napi instances dont follow same rule. We can exit after only one
> packet processed...
> The normal quota of 64 packets per napi instance should be the norm, and
> net_rx_action() already has its own time limit.
> Note : /proc/net/core/dev_weight can be used to tune this 64 default
> value.
> 
> - Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED for softnet_data definition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Yep, doing this time limit at two levels is pointless.

Applied, thanks Eric!
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