Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: napi: Make napi_defer_hard_irqs per-NAPI

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:05:02 -0700

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:11:57 +0000 Joe Damato wrote:
> +/**
> + * napi_get_defer_hard_irqs - get the NAPI's defer_hard_irqs
> + * @n: napi struct to get the defer_hard_irqs field from
> + *
> + * Returns the per-NAPI value of the defar_hard_irqs field.
> + */
> +int napi_get_defer_hard_irqs(const struct napi_struct *n);
> +
> +/**
> + * napi_set_defer_hard_irqs - set the defer_hard_irqs for a napi
> + * @n: napi_struct to set the defer_hard_irqs field
> + * @defer: the value the field should be set to
> + */
> +void napi_set_defer_hard_irqs(struct napi_struct *n, int defer);
> +
> +/**
> + * netdev_set_defer_hard_irqs - set defer_hard_irqs for all NAPIs of a netdev
> + * @netdev: the net_device for which all NAPIs will have their defer_hard_irqs set
> + * @defer: the defer_hard_irqs value to set
> + */
> +void netdev_set_defer_hard_irqs(struct net_device *netdev, int defer);

Do you expect drivers or modules to call these?
I'm not sure we need the wrappers just to cover up the READ/WRITE_ONCE()
but if you do want to keep them they can be static inlines in
net/core/dev.h

nit: IIUC the kdoc should go on the definition, not the declaration.