alloc_rq_skb_arr(9)

🦋 alloc_rq_skb_arr(9) — the alloc_rq_skb_arr page, bestie edition 💅

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's all about alloc_rq_skb_arr. it's short, it's sweet, and it's giving "one job, does it well" energy. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

alloc_rq_skb_arr — literally just: allocate the rq array for saved skb. that's the whole assignment, no cap 🎀

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

int alloc_rq_skb_arr (struct hinic_rq *rq );

the way it's an int return and takes exactly one thing… lowkey iconic. copy it exactly, bestie, don't be creative with it 🙈

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• rq — the HW Receive Queue. that's it. that's the argument. hardware receive queue, main character of this function's whole life 🫶

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so here's the whole vibe check:

Return 0 — Success. negative — Failure. 💀

like… that's genuinely it. it returns 0 when it slays, and a negative value when it doesn't. no in-between, no nuance, periodt. if you get a negative number back, that's your sign that something went sideways — handle it, don't ignore it, fr fr 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

first up, the actual file this lives in — the kernel file here:

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

and then a whole friend group of related pages, all listed exactly as they are because we do not drop names in this house 👑

• alloc_sq_skb_arr(9), free_sq_skb_arr(9), free_rq_skb_arr(9)
• hinic_init_sq(9), hinic_clean_sq(9)
• alloc_rq_cqe(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)

that's the whole squad, no one left behind 💜

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🧚 tiny reminder bestie: all those names are the actual page names — don't go shortening them or "cleaning them up", iykyk ✨

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and that's the page!! 🍓 sign-off time: this one comes from ./drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/... and it's dated October 2026 — and yes, we're still out here reading alloc_rq_skb_arr(9) in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, because we're thorough like that. mwah 💋🌸