__ice_vsi_get_qs(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 __ice_vsi_get_qs(9) — like, the actual function name, bestie

Okay so real talk, this page lives in the Kernel API Manual section (9) and it's all about __ice_vsi_get_qs — the little helper function that handles assigning queues from the PF to the VSI 🎀 iykyk.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int __ice_vsi_get_qs (struct ice_qs_cfg *qs_cfg );

That's it. One function, one pointer, one int coming back at you 💖

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • qs_cfg — the little bundle of gathered variables you need for the pf->vsi queues assignment. It's literally carrying all the info for the handoff 🌸

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the way this works: __ice_vsi_get_qs first tries to find contiguous space. Contiguous. Like, all in a row, sitting pretty together ✨

If that doesn't work out? No stress. It pivots and tries with the scatter approach instead — spreading out, doing its own thing, still getting the job done 💅

And the return values, because we always check those:

  • 0 on success 🎉
  • -ENOMEM in case of no left space in the PF queue bitmap 😭 (the bitmap is full, bestie, there's nowhere left to put anything)
Heads up: -ENOMEM here isn't about the system being out of memory in the usual sense — it means there's no left space in the PF queue bitmap. Read the error code, don't assume 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The kernel file this lives in, no cap:

./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_base.c

And here's the whole friend group — every single one of them, in order, exactly as listed, because we do not skip entries in this house 🔥

And that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🧚 Signing off from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice — this page is dated October 2026, and the man page itself is __ice_vsi_get_qs(9). Go forth and assign those queues 💜🌈⭐

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