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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:39:02 +0100 From: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: NAPI documentation needed I wanted to report some problem I've encouraged during bgmac driver development. At the very beginning I've implemented IRQ using threaded IRQ (request_threaded_irq). I didn't know about NAPI until someone pointed me that mistake. So I decided to rewrite IRQs handling to use NAPI. I've found following documents: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/napi ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/README ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/NAPI_HOWTO.txt ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/converting-to-NAPI.txt~ but nothing really official sitting in kernel's Documentation dir. So I started to using found documents, but then noticed they are quite outdated. 1) We don't have netif_rx_schedule and netif_rx_complete anymore. 2) We don't set poll and weight manually anymore but use netif_napi_add 3) Return type and arguments has changed in poll. None of the following is up-to-date: static void my_poll (struct net_device *dev, int *budget) int (*poll)(struct net_device *dev, int *budget); It would be great if someone with NAPI knowledge could document it in a kernel. Would be really helpful for new network drivers developers. -- Rafał -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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