net: provide generic busy polling to all NAPI drivers

NAPI drivers no longer need to observe a particular protocol
to benefit from busy polling (CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL=y)

napi_hash_add() and napi_hash_del() are automatically called
from core networking stack, respectively from
netif_napi_add() and netif_napi_del()

This patch depends on free_netdev() and netif_napi_del() being
called from process context, which seems to be the norm.

Drivers might still prefer to call napi_hash_del() on their
own, since they might combine all the rcu grace periods into
a single one, knowing their NAPI structures lifetime, while
core networking stack has no idea of a possible combining.

Once this patch proves to not bring serious regressions,
we will cleanup drivers to either remove napi_hash_del()
or provide appropriate rcu grace periods combining.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index e5c33b29471b..7d2d1d7aaec7 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -466,6 +466,9 @@ static inline void napi_complete(struct napi_struct *n)
  *	@napi: napi context
  *
  * generate a new napi_id and store a @napi under it in napi_hash
+ * Used for busy polling (CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL)
+ * Note: This is normally automatically done from netif_napi_add(),
+ * so might disappear in a future linux version.
  */
 void napi_hash_add(struct napi_struct *napi);
 
@@ -476,6 +479,10 @@ void napi_hash_add(struct napi_struct *napi);
  * Warning: caller must observe rcu grace period
  * before freeing memory containing @napi, if
  * this function returns true.
+ * Note: core networking stack automatically calls it
+ * from netif_napi_del()
+ * Drivers might want to call this helper to combine all
+ * the needed rcu grace periods into a single one.
  */
 bool napi_hash_del(struct napi_struct *napi);