Re: [PATCH] net: hisilicon: Fix ping latency when deal with high throughput

[David Miller]

From: Jiangfeng Xiao <xiaojiangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:49:39 +0800

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
> index ad6d912..78f338a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
> @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ static int hip04_rx_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>  	struct hip04_priv *priv = container_of(napi, struct hip04_priv, napi);
>  	struct net_device *ndev = priv->ndev;
>  	struct net_device_stats *stats = &ndev->stats;
> -	unsigned int cnt = hip04_recv_cnt(priv);
> +	static unsigned int cnt_remaining;

There is no way a piece of software state should be system wide, this is
a per device instance value.