netif_napi_del(9)

💅 netif_napi_del(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes we're in that part of the kernel today, the networking corner, and honestly? it's giving main character energy ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

netif_napi_del — remove a NAPI context 🫶 like, yeet it off the list, respectfully

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void netif_napi_del (struct napi_struct *napi );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• napi — the NAPI context, aka the lil guy we're about to un-list 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

netif_napi_del removes a NAPI context from the network device NAPI list.

that's it, that's the whole vibe 🔥 it's a removal, not a glow-up. one (1) NAPI context gets taken off the network device's NAPI list, periodt ✨

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

no cap, this is a long list — the whole friend group showed up 🌈 grab a snack, we're going through everybody:

• Kernel file ./include/linux/netdevice.h 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)

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fr fr bestie, if you're writing driver code, go read the netif_napi_add(9) family next — you literally can't del what you never added 😭

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okay and the official vibes-only sign-off 💖 this page lives in ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and the page itself is netif_napi_del(9) — slay, go touch some packets 🦋✨🎀