dce_v6_0_latency_watermark(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ dce_v6_0_latency_watermark(9) ✨

okay bestie so we're in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is dce_v6_0_latency_watermark 💅 don't worry, it's way less scary than the name looks, i promise 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

dce_v6_0_latency_watermark — get the latency watermark ⭐

like, that's literally the whole job. it gets the latency watermark. slay.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

u32 dce_v6_0_latency_watermark (struct dce6_wm_params *wm );

so you hand it your watermark params and it hands you back a u32. transactional. iconic. ✨

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • wm — the watermark calculation data 💖 this is the lil struct that carries everything the function needs to do its math. it's the vibe check input, yk?

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea 🍵 — this function calculates the latency watermark (CIK). that's it, that's the whole plot.

it's used for display watermark bandwidth calculations, so basically it's one piece of the bigger bandwidth-math puzzle 🧩

and the return value? the latency watermark in ns (nanoseconds, bestie, we're talking tiny tiny time) ⏱️✨

ngl the description is short but that's genuinely everything the page says — no cap, no extra lore 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you wanna go down the rabbit hole (and honestly? obsessed), the kernel file lives here:

./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v6_0.c

and here's the whole friend group 👑✨:

mwah 💋 that's the page!! sourced straight from ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu, dated October 2026, in classic manual-section-9 fashion — periodt 🎀✨

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