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New API
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<p>New API (also referred to as NAPI) is an interface to use <a href="/facts/Interrupt_mitigation/HzYrpthw">interrupt mitigation</a> techniques for networking devices in the <a href="/facts/Linux_kernel/dlkduHuA">Linux kernel</a>. Such an approach is intended to reduce the overhead of packet receiving. The idea is to defer incoming message handling until there is a sufficient amount of them so that it is worth handling them all at once. </p>