From Zero to One: Mastering Linux NAPI High‑Concurrency Packet Reception
This article explains why traditional interrupt‑driven network I/O stalls under high traffic, introduces the NAPI (New API) mechanism that combines interrupt wake‑up with batch polling, details its core data structures and scheduling functions, and provides step‑by‑step configuration and tuning guidance to achieve efficient, low‑latency packet processing on Linux servers.
