octep_napi_poll(9)

🎀 octep_napi_poll — straight out of the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🎀

okay so picture this: you're deep in the <pink>Kernel API Manual</pink> section of the group chat, and someone drops octep_napi_poll(9). That's this page. Hi. Welcome. Pull up a chair. 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

octep_napi_poll — the NAPI poll function for Tx/Rx. That's it, that's the whole vibe. It polls. For Tx and Rx. Iconic behavior honestly. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

look at her. so clean. so confident. she returns an int and she takes exactly two things. main character energy fr fr. 👑

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• napi — pointer to the napi context. like, the whole entire context. she needs to know who she is before she can poll anything, y'know? 🫶
• budget — the max number of packets that get processed in a single invocation. it's giving "how many snacks can I carry in one trip" energy. there is a limit, bestie. respect the limit. 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long and I'm obsessed with her for it. no cap, this is the entire extended friend group. take notes:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_main.c
• octep_alloc_ioq_vectors(9)
• octep_free_ioq_vectors(9)
• octep_enable_msix_range(9)
• octep_disable_msix(9)
• octep_mbox_intr_handler(9)
• octep_oei_intr_handler(9)
• octep_ire_intr_handler(9)
• octep_ore_intr_handler(9)
• octep_vfire_intr_handler(9)
• octep_vfore_intr_handler(9)
• octep_dma_intr_handler(9)
• octep_dma_vf_intr_handler(9)
• octep_pp_vf_intr_handler(9)
• octep_misc_intr_handler(9)
• octep_rsvd_intr_handler(9)
• octep_ioq_intr_handler(9)
• octep_request_irqs(9)
• octep_free_irqs(9)
• octep_setup_irqs(9)
• octep_clean_irqs(9)
• octep_update_pkt(9)
• octep_enable_ioq_irq(9)
• octep_napi_add(9)
• octep_napi_delete(9)
• octep_napi_enable(9)
• octep_napi_disable(9)
• octep_open(9)
• octep_stop(9)
• octep_iq_full_check(9)
• octep_start_xmit(9)
• octep_get_stats64(9)
• octep_tx_timeout_task(9)
• octep_tx_timeout(9)
• octep_intr_poll_task(9)
• octep_hb_timeout_task(9)
• octep_ctrl_mbox_task(9)
• octep_device_setup(9)
• octep_device_cleanup(9)
• octep_probe(9)
• octep_remove(9)
• octep_init_module(9)
• octep_exit_module(9)

like I said. the whole era. 💀✨

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bestie reminder: this page is the entire documentation here — the poll function, the two arguments, the file it lives in, and the 40-plus neighbors above. no more, no less. don't go inventing extra flags, I'm begging. 🙈

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and that's the page!! signing off with the cutest little footer moment: this one's stamped ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell... and dated <purple>October 2026</purple>, and the name at the very bottom is none other than octep_napi_poll(9). slay. periodt. 💜🎀