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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:08:59 +0200
Subject: net: netdevice.h: add a description for napi_defer_hard_irqs
Patch-mainline: v5.9-rc1
Git-commit: 5c45a918263e4da142b9cf40a1dfcb4134d454a2
References: bsc#1176447

Changeset 6f8b12d661d0 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral feature")
added a new element at struct net_device.

Add a description for it, based on what's described at the changeset
which added such feature.

Fixes: 6f8b12d661d0 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral feature")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/807a3840e7bc1562adefadb0535c9f47e6ab52e0.1592895969.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 include/linux/netdevice.h |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1743,6 +1743,8 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
  *	@real_num_rx_queues: 	Number of RX queues currently active in device
  *	@xdp_prog:		XDP sockets filter program pointer
  *	@gro_flush_timeout:	timeout for GRO layer in NAPI
+ *	@napi_defer_hard_irqs:	If not zero, provides a counter that would
+ *				allow to avoid NIC hard IRQ, on busy queues.
  *
  *	@rx_handler:		handler for received packets
  *	@rx_handler_data: 	XXX: need comments on this one