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diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
index 655414821edc..7228369d1014 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -895,6 +895,9 @@ static void handle_console_output(int fd, struct virtqueue *vq, bool timeout)
895 } 895 }
896} 896}
897 897
898/* This is called when we no longer want to hear about Guest changes to a
899 * virtqueue. This is more efficient in high-traffic cases, but it means we
900 * have to set a timer to check if any more changes have occurred. */
898static void block_vq(struct virtqueue *vq) 901static void block_vq(struct virtqueue *vq)
899{ 902{
900 struct itimerval itm; 903 struct itimerval itm;
@@ -939,6 +942,11 @@ static void handle_net_output(int fd, struct virtqueue *vq, bool timeout)
939 if (!timeout && num) 942 if (!timeout && num)
940 block_vq(vq); 943 block_vq(vq);
941 944
945 /* We never quite know how long should we wait before we check the
946 * queue again for more packets. We start at 500 microseconds, and if
947 * we get fewer packets than last time, we assume we made the timeout
948 * too small and increase it by 10 microseconds. Otherwise, we drop it
949 * by one microsecond every time. It seems to work well enough. */
942 if (timeout) { 950 if (timeout) {
943 if (num < last_timeout_num) 951 if (num < last_timeout_num)
944 timeout_usec += 10; 952 timeout_usec += 10;