RDMA_FREE_DEVICES(3)

✨ RDMA_FREE_DEVICES ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the librdmacm programmer's manual, section 3 🫶 this one's a lil baby page but it's so important, like the cleanup crew at the end of the party. it's giving responsible memory management, fr fr.

💖 NAME 💖

rdma_free_devices — frees the list of devices that rdma_get_devices handed you back. no cap, that's the whole job. you got the list, now you gotta let it go 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <rdma/rdma_cma.h>

void rdma_free_devices (struct ibv_context **list);

like. one line. one function. void return, no drama 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• list — the list of devices you got back from rdma_get_devices. that's it, that's the whole input. hand it over and let the function do its thing 🧚

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so here's the tea ☕ — rdma_free_devices frees the device array that rdma_get_devices returned. you asked for the devices, you got the array, and now you're done with it, so this is the part where you clean up after yourself. main character energy is knowing when to release your resources, periodt ✨

💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

None. literally nothing comes back. it's void. it does the thing and dips 🙈 no status, no error code, no receipts.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• rdma_get_devices(3) — the one that gave you the list in the first place. go read that one too, iykyk 🔥

ngl bestie, if you call rdma_get_devices and never call this, that's a leak. the vibe check will find you 💀

and that's the whole page! 🌟 this one came from the librdmacm Programmer's Manual and it's dated 2007-05-15, so it's been holding it down since way before you were on this app. slay, honestly 👑💖