gsi_channel_poll(9)

💅 gsi_channel_poll(9) 💅

okay bestie, this page is from the Kernel API Manual and it’s about gsi_channel_poll(9) — NAPI poll function for a channel, no cap ✨

✨ NAME ✨

gsi_channel_poll — NAPI poll function for a channel 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int gsi_channel_poll (struct napi_struct *napi , int budget );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• napi — NAPI structure for the channel. That’s the channel’s NAPI situation, bestie 🫶
• budget — Budget supplied by NAPI core. The NAPI core hands this number over, and it matters 💸

⭐ RETURN ⭐

Number of items polled (<= budget) — literally the count of items polled, and it stays at or under the budget 💯

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the vibe is: single transactions completed by hardware are polled until either the budget is exhausted or there are no more — whichever hits first 🧚

Each transaction that gets polled is passed to gsi_trans_complete so it can do the remaining completion processing and retire/free the transaction. slay, that’s the whole flow 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ipa/gsi.c 📁
• The IPA Generic Software Interface(9) 📘
• gsi_trans_tx_completed(9)
• gsi_isr(9)
• gsi_evt_ring_update(9)
• gsi_channel_poll_one(9)

🎀 okay that’s the whole page, bestie! source/version: ./drivers/net/ipa; date: October 2026. now go poll those channels responsibly 💖✨