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authorSean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>2024-09-30 18:39:54 +0300
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2024-10-03 13:07:29 +0300
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doc: net: napi: Update documentation for napi_schedule_irqoff
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> Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240930153955.971657-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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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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