IPA RESOURCES(9)

🎀 IPA Resources 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the IPA Resources(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — it's giving kernel internals and I'm lowkey obsessed ✨

So the IPA? It manages a set of resources internally for various purposes. And bestie, it's fixed: a given IPA version has a fixed number of resource types, and a fixed total number of resources of each type. The "Source" resource types are separate from the "destination" resource types — separate, periodt 💅

Each version of IPA also has some number of resource groups. Every endpoint is assigned to a resource group, and all endpoints in the same group share pools of each type of resource. A subset of the total resources of each type is assigned for use by each group. Slay 🦋

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ipa/ipa_resource.c — go read it, iykyk 💖

mwah 💋 this one comes from ./drivers/net/ipa, dated October 2026 — IPA Resources(9) out 🌈✨