[PATCH net] doc: net: napi: Update documentation for napi_schedule_irqoff
From: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
Date: 2024-09-30 15:40:15
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Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Since commit 8380c81d5c4f ("net: Treat __napi_schedule_irqoff() as
__napi_schedule() on PREEMPT_RT"), napi_schedule_irqoff will do the
right thing if IRQs are threaded. Therefore, there is no need to use
IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
---
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240913150954.2287196-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev/ (local)
Documentation/networking/napi.rst | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/napi.rst b/Documentation/networking/napi.rst
index 7bf7b95c4f7a..dfa5d549be9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/napi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/napi.rst@@ -144,9 +144,8 @@ IRQ should only be unmasked after a successful call to napi_complete_done(): napi_schedule_irqoff() is a variant of napi_schedule() which takes advantage of guarantees given by being invoked in IRQ context (no need to -mask interrupts). Note that PREEMPT_RT forces all interrupts -to be threaded so the interrupt may need to be marked ``IRQF_NO_THREAD`` -to avoid issues on real-time kernel configurations. +mask interrupts). napi_schedule_irqoff() will fall back to napi_schedule() if +IRQs are threaded (such as if ``PREEMPT_RT`` is enabled). Instance to queue mapping -------------------------
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