__netif_napi_del(9)

💖 __netif_napi_del(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is where the kernel docs live, and today's main character is __netif_napi_del(9). Buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

__netif_napi_del — remove a NAPI context. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void __netif_napi_del (struct napi_struct *napi );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• napi — the NAPI context. that's the one, the only, the icon 👑

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💀 DESCRIPTION 💀

Warning: caller must observe RCU grace period before freeing memory containing napi. fr fr, do not skip this, this is not a drill 🚨

Drivers might want to call this helper to combine all the needed RCU grace periods into a single one. like, the way that it merges them all together?? efficiency queen 🧚✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ngl this list is long but every single one of them is here, no skips, no cap 💜

• ./include/linux/netdevice.h — the kernel file where it all lives
• struct gro_node(9)
• napi_is_scheduled(9)
• napi_schedule(9)
• napi_schedule_irqoff(9)
• napi_complete_done(9)
• napi_synchronize(9)
• napi_if_scheduled_mark_missed(9)
• enum netdev_priv_flags(9)
• struct net_device(9)
• netdev_priv(9)
• netdev_from_priv(9)
• netif_napi_add(9)
• netif_napi_add_config(9)
• netif_napi_add_tx(9)
• netif_napi_del(9)
• netif_start_queue(9)
• netif_wake_queue(9)
• netif_stop_queue(9)
• netif_queue_stopped(9)
• netdev_queue_set_dql_min_limit(9)
• netdev_txq_bql_enqueue_prefetchw(9)
• netdev_txq_bql_complete_prefetchw(9)
• netdev_tx_sent_queue(9)
• netdev_sent_queue(9)
• netdev_tx_completed_queue(9)
• netdev_completed_queue(9)
• netdev_tx_reset_subqueue(9)
• netdev_reset_queue(9)
• netdev_cap_txqueue(9)
• netif_running(9)
• netif_start_subqueue(9)
• netif_stop_subqueue(9)
• __netif_subqueue_stopped(9)
• netif_subqueue_stopped(9)
• netif_wake_subqueue(9)
• netif_attr_test_mask(9)
• netif_attr_test_online(9)
• netif_attrmask_next(9)
• netif_attrmask_next_and(9)
• netif_is_multiqueue(9)
• dev_hold(9)
• dev_put(9)
• linkwatch_sync_dev(9)
• netif_carrier_ok(9)
• netif_dormant_on(9)
• netif_dormant_off(9)
• netif_dormant(9)
• netif_testing_on(9)
• netif_testing_off(9)
• netif_testing(9)
• netif_oper_up(9)
• netif_device_present(9)
• netif_tx_lock(9)
• __dev_uc_sync(9)
• __dev_uc_unsync(9)
• __dev_mc_sync(9)
• __dev_mc_unsync(9)

go read some of these, i promise they're worth it 🌈

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and that's the whole page bestie 🫶 this one came straight outta ./include/linux with the October 2026 date stamp — ty bestie, mwah, slay 💋💖