cxgb4_sched_class_alloc(9)

💅 cxgb4_sched_class_alloc(9) — okay bestie, let's talk scheduling classes

So this one lives in the Kernel API Manual, which is giving very "backstage pass to the kernel" energy, and honestly? Iconic. It's a kernel API page about grabbing yourself a scheduling class in the cxgb4 driver. Let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

cxgb4_sched_class_alloc — allocate a scheduling class, fr fr 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct ch_sched_class * cxgb4_sched_class_alloc (struct net_device *dev
, struct ch_sched_params *p );

Like, it takes two things and hands you back a struct ch_sched_class *. Periodt. 💅

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🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

• dev — a net_device pointer. Just your net device, bestie, nothing chaotic 🌈
• p — the new scheduling class you wanna create ✨

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Okay so the way this works: it returns a pointer to the scheduling class that got created 🔥

And there's two lil scenarios, iykyk:

• If p is NULL, then it allocates and returns any available unused scheduling class. Like, "surprise me, give me whatever's free" energy 🙈
• If a scheduling class with a p that matches is found, then that matching class is the one that gets returned 🫶

Either way you walk away with a class. Slay 💖

Heads up bestie — keep those two behaviours straight, because they're lowkey different paths to your answer, and the manpage is very clear that a NULL p means "any unused one" while a matching p means "that specific match." No cap 🧚

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c 📁
• cxgb4_sched_class_bind(9)
• cxgb4_sched_class_unbind(9)
• cxgb4_sched_class_free(9)

The whole little scheduling squad, honestly adorable 🌸

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Okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — this one came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio... and it's dated October 2026, and the page itself is cxgb4_sched_class_alloc(9). Go forth and allocate responsibly, main character 🦋💜