__octep_oq_process_rx(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

👑 __octep_oq_process_rx(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up

okay so bestie, we're diving into the Linux kernel API manual for __octep_oq_process_rx(9) and honestly? she's giving "quietly doing the most important work in the room" energy. ✨ Let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

__octep_oq_process_rx — Process hardware Rx queue and push to stack. 💅

That's it. That's the whole vibe. She processes, she pushes, she leaves. Iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int __octep_oq_process_rx (struct octep_device *oct , struct octep_oq *oq , u16 pkts_to_process );

literally just three args and a dream, no cap 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • oct — the Octeon device private data structure. Your device's whole personality, basically. 🦋
  • oq — the Octeon Rx queue data structure. The queue in question, the main character. 👑
  • pkts_to_process — number of packets to be processed. Yes bestie, u16, so budget accordingly. 💀

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

So here's the tea: this function processes the new packets sitting in the Rx queue. 🔥

Now, plot twist — packets that are larger than a single Rx buffer don't arrive in one descriptor. They show up spread across consecutive descriptors, like a group chat message that got split into seven texts. 📱

And here's the important part, don't miss it: the count returned by the API only accounts for full packets, not fragments. So if you were expecting fragment math, nope. Full packets only. Periodt. 💅

⭐ RETURN ⭐

number of packets processed and pushed to stack. 🥳 (full packets only, remember — see above, iykyk.)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Peep the kernel file first, bestie:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c

And the whole friend group — every single one, no skipping:

(not her linking to herself in the SEE ALSO, we love a self-referential queen 🙈)

ngl, if you're messing with Rx queue internals and you skipped reading octep_rx.c, that's on you bestie 😭 the source is right there.

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