ed56c5193a
Disable periodic stats update background thread and update stats in background on demand when ndo_get_stats is called. Having a background thread running in the driver all the time is bad for power consumption and normally a user space daemon will query the stats once every specific interval, so ideally the background thread and its interval can be done in user space.. Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.