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Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:08:59 +0200
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 03/15] net: netdevice.h: add a description for napi_defer_hard_irqs

Changeset 6f8b12d661d0 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral feature")
added a new element at struct net_device.

Add a description for it, based on what's described at the changeset
which added such feature.

Fixes: 6f8b12d661d0 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral feature")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 39e28e11863c..027df84f0f59 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1742,6 +1742,8 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
  *	@real_num_rx_queues: 	Number of RX queues currently active in device
  *	@xdp_prog:		XDP sockets filter program pointer
  *	@gro_flush_timeout:	timeout for GRO layer in NAPI
+ *	@napi_defer_hard_irqs:	If not zero, provides a counter that would
+ *				allow to avoid NIC hard IRQ, on busy queues.
  *
  *	@rx_handler:		handler for received packets
  *	@rx_handler_data: 	XXX: need comments on this one
-- 
2.26.2

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