alloc_rq_cqe(9)

💅 alloc_rq_cqe — the Kernel API Manual tea, section 9

okay bestie, welcome to alloc_rq_cqe(9) — yes that (9) is the man page section, and yes it's the kernel API manual, we love a little kernel moment 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

alloc_rq_cqe — allocate rq completion queue elements 🎀

like, the whole job. that's it. it allocates the completion queue elements for the receive queue. slay.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int alloc_rq_cqe (struct hinic_rq *rq );

look at her. one argument, returns an int, no drama 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• rq — the HW Receive Queue 👑 that's the hardware receive queue, bestie, the actual physical queue situation, not a vibe.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea, and it's a short one fr fr: return 0 for success, negative for failure.

literally that's the whole contract. 0 = we ate. negative = we did not eat 😭

ngl, this page is very low on lore, but the details are the details — 0 success, negative failure, no cap 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

everything is connected, iykyk. also the kernel file where she lives:

./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_qp.c

• alloc_sq_skb_arr(9)
• free_sq_skb_arr(9)
• alloc_rq_skb_arr(9)
• free_rq_skb_arr(9)
• hinic_init_sq(9)
• hinic_clean_sq(9)
• free_rq_cqe(9)
• hinic_init_rq(9)
• hinic_clean_rq(9)
• hinic_get_sq_free_wqebbs(9)
• hinic_get_rq_free_wqebbs(9)
• hinic_sq_prepare_wqe(9)
• sq_prepare_db(9)
• hinic_sq_write_db(9)
• hinic_sq_get_wqe(9)
• hinic_sq_return_wqe(9)
• hinic_sq_write_wqe(9)
• hinic_sq_read_wqebb(9)
• hinic_sq_read_wqe(9)
• hinic_sq_put_wqe(9)
• hinic_sq_get_sges(9)
• hinic_rq_get_wqe(9)
• hinic_rq_write_wqe(9)
• hinic_rq_read_wqe(9)
• hinic_rq_read_next_wqe(9)
• hinic_rq_put_wqe(9)
• hinic_rq_get_sge(9)
• hinic_rq_prepare_wqe(9)
• hinic_rq_update(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖✨

cute little sign-off time 🎀 this one's sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/... and dated October 2026 — periodt, go read the other hinic pages, they're all linked above 🦋👑