Document the existence of persistent per-NAPI configuration space and
the API that drivers can opt into.
Update stale documentation which suggested that NAPI IDs cannot be
queried from userspace.
Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Reword the Persistent Napi config section using some suggestions
from Jakub.
Documentation/networking/napi.rst | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/napi.rst
b/Documentation/networking/napi.rst
index f970a2be271a..d0e3953cae6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/napi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/napi.rst
@@ -171,12 +171,43 @@ a channel as an IRQ/NAPI which services queues
of a given type. For example,
a configuration of 1 ``rx``, 1 ``tx`` and 1 ``combined`` channel is expected
to utilize 3 interrupts, 2 Rx and 2 Tx queues.
+Persistent NAPI config
+----------------------
+
+Drivers often allocate and free NAPI instances dynamically. This leads to loss
+of NAPI-related user configuration each time NAPI instances are reallocated.
+The netif_napi_add_config() API prevents this loss of configuration by
+associating each NAPI instance with a persistent NAPI configuration based on
+a driver defined index value, like a queue number.
+
+Using this API allows for persistent NAPI IDs (among other settings), which can
+be beneficial to userspace programs using ``SO_INCOMING_NAPI_ID``. See the
+sections below for other NAPI configuration settings.
+
+Drivers should try to use netif_napi_add_config() whenever possible.
+
User API
========
User interactions with NAPI depend on NAPI instance ID. The instance IDs
are only visible to the user thru the ``SO_INCOMING_NAPI_ID`` socket option.
-It's not currently possible to query IDs used by a given device.
+
+Users can query NAPI IDs for a device or device queue using netlink. This can
+be done programmatically in a user application or by using a script included in
+the kernel source tree: ``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py``.
+
+For example, using the script to dump all of the queues for a device (which
+will reveal each queue's NAPI ID):
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ kernel-source/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py \
+ --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml \
+ --dump queue-get \
+ --json='{"ifindex": 2}'
+
+See ``Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml`` for more details on
+available operations and attributes.
Software IRQ coalescing
-----------------------
base-commit: ae9b3c0e79bcc154f80f6e862d3085de31bcb3ce
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2.43.0
