napi_synchronize(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 napi_synchronize — like, the Kernel API Manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, so this is napi_synchronize(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes that's a real section, yes we're doing this, and yes it's lowkey the politest little wait-loop in the networking stack 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

napi_synchronize — literally just wait until NAPI is not running, that's the whole vibe 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void napi_synchronize (const struct napi_struct *n );

no cap, that's it. one function, one argument, zero drama ✨

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • n — the NAPI context 💖 (it's a const struct napi_struct *, so like, we're looking, not touching 🙈)

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

So here's the tea: napi_synchronize waits until NAPI is done being scheduled on this context. That's it. That's the function. 👑

It waits till any outstanding processing completes — like, all the in-flight stuff finishes up, bestie, we're not leaving anything half-done 💅

But — and this is the part you gotta hear me on — it does not disable future activations. Nope. It's not a lock, it's not a gate, it's not blocking the door. It just waits for the current round to wrap up and then lets the future do its thing 🌈

so don't be out here thinking this thing freezes NAPI forever, because it fr fr does not. it's a "wait for it to finish" not a "make it never happen again". big difference, iykyk 💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

okay this list is iconic and honestly kind of long, so buckle in — everything below lives in the kernel file ./include/linux/netdevice.h:

like i said. a lot. but every single one ate, so 🤷‍♀️💜

okay that's the whole page, go be a networking girlypop 🧚✨ this one's from ./include/linux, dated October 2026 — mwah, love u, bye 💖🎀

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