Commit 3eb8eea2 authored Mar 21, 2023 by Jakub Kicinski

docs: networking: document NAPI

Add basic documentation about NAPI. We can stop linking to the ancient
doc on the LF wiki.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230315223044.471002-1-kuba@kernel.org/


Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> # for ctucanfd-driver.rst
Reviewed-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230322053848.198452-1-kuba@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

parent fcb3a465

Documentation/networking/device_drivers/can/ctu/ctucanfd-driver.rst

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		enabling interrupts, handling an incoming IRQ in ISR, re-enabling the
		softirq and switching context back to softirq.

		More detailed documentation of NAPI may be found on the pages of Linux
		Foundation `<https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/napi>`_.
		See :ref:`Documentation/networking/napi.rst <napi>` for more information.

		Integrating the core to Xilinx Zynq
		-----------------------------------

Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/e100.rst

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		NAPI (Rx polling mode) is supported in the e100 driver.

		See https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/napi for more
		information on NAPI.
		See :ref:`Documentation/networking/napi.rst <napi>` for more information.

		Multiple Interfaces on Same Ethernet Broadcast Network
		------------------------------------------------------

Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/i40e.rst

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		NAPI
		----
		NAPI (Rx polling mode) is supported in the i40e driver.
		For more information on NAPI, see
		https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/napi

		See :ref:`Documentation/networking/napi.rst <napi>` for more information.

		Flow Control
		------------

Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ice.rst

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		NAPI
		----

		This driver supports NAPI (Rx polling mode).
		For more information on NAPI, see
		https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/napi

		See :ref:`Documentation/networking/napi.rst <napi>` for more information.

		MACVLAN
		-------

Documentation/networking/index.rst

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		mpls-sysctl
		mptcp-sysctl
		multiqueue
		napi
		netconsole
		netdev-features
		netdevices