e1000_clean_tx_ring(9)

💅 e1000_clean_tx_ring(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

Okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual today and this one's called e1000_clean_tx_ring — say it with me, it's giving "free the tx buffers" energy and honestly? Iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

e1000_clean_tx_ring — Free Tx Buffers 💖

Like, it literally frees the Tx buffers. That's the whole vibe. No cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void e1000_clean_tx_ring (struct e1000_ring *tx_ring );

Returns void, so don't go looking for a return value, bestie — there isn't one, she just does her thing and leaves. 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• tx_ring — this is the Tx descriptor ring, the main character of the whole operation. She's a struct e1000_ring * and she's the one getting cleaned. Periodt. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Right so, the source file for all this lives at the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c — go read her, she ate. 🔥

And here's the whole friend group, like the entire group chat of related functions, no one left out, I would never 🙈:

• __ew32_prepare(9)
• e1000_regdump(9)
• e1000e_dump(9)
• e1000_desc_unused(9)
• e1000e_systim_to_hwtstamp(9)
• e1000e_rx_hwtstamp(9)
• e1000_receive_skb(9)
• e1000_rx_checksum(9)
• e1000_alloc_rx_buffers(9)
• e1000_alloc_rx_buffers_ps(9)
• e1000_alloc_jumbo_rx_buffers(9)
• e1000_clean_rx_irq(9)
• e1000e_tx_hwtstamp_work(9)
• e1000_clean_tx_irq(9)
• e1000_clean_rx_irq_ps(9)
• e1000_clean_jumbo_rx_irq(9)
• e1000_clean_rx_ring(9)
• e1000_intr_msi(9)
• e1000_intr(9)
• e1000_configure_msix(9)
• e1000e_set_interrupt_capability(9)
• e1000_request_msix(9)
• e1000_request_irq(9)
• e1000_irq_disable(9)
• e1000_irq_enable(9)
• e1000e_get_hw_control(9)
• e1000e_release_hw_control(9)
• e1000_alloc_ring_dma(9)
• e1000e_setup_tx_resources(9)
• e1000e_setup_rx_resources(9)
• e1000e_free_tx_resources(9)
• e1000e_free_rx_resources(9)
• e1000_update_itr(9)
• e1000e_write_itr(9)
• e1000_alloc_queues(9)
• e1000e_poll(9)
• e1000e_vlan_filter_disable(9)
• e1000e_vlan_filter_enable(9)
• e1000e_vlan_strip_disable(9)
• e1000e_vlan_strip_enable(9)
• e1000_configure_tx(9)
• e1000_setup_rctl(9)
• e1000_configure_rx(9)
• e1000e_write_mc_addr_list(9)
• e1000e_write_uc_addr_list(9)
• e1000e_set_rx_mode(9)
• e1000e_get_base_timinca(9)
• e1000e_config_hwtstamp(9)
• e1000_configure(9)
• e1000e_power_up_phy(9)
• e1000_power_down_phy(9)
• e1000_flush_tx_ring(9)
• e1000_flush_rx_ring(9)
• e1000_flush_desc_rings(9)
• e1000e_systim_reset(9)
• e1000e_reset(9)
• e1000e_trigger_lsc(9)
• e1000e_down(9)
• e1000e_sanitize_systim(9)
• e1000e_read_systim(9)
• e1000e_cyclecounter_read(9)
• e1000_sw_init(9)
• e1000_intr_msi_test(9)
• e1000_test_msi_interrupt(9)
• e1000_test_msi(9)
• e1000e_open(9)
• e1000e_close(9)
• e1000_set_mac(9)
• e1000e_update_phy_task(9)
• e1000_update_phy_info(9)
• e1000e_update_phy_stats(9)
• e1000e_update_stats(9)
• e1000_phy_read_status(9)
• e1000_watchdog(9)
• e1000_tx_timeout(9)
• e1000e_get_stats64(9)
• e1000_change_mtu(9)
• e1000e_hwtstamp_set(9)
• __e1000e_disable_aspm(9)
• e1000e_disable_aspm(9)
• e1000e_disable_aspm_locked(9)
• e1000_netpoll(9)
• e1000_io_error_detected(9)
• e1000_io_slot_reset(9)
• e1000_io_resume(9)
• e1000_probe(9)
• e1000_remove(9)
• e1000_init_module(9)
• e1000_exit_module(9)

Like… that's the whole squad. Go say hi. 💜

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Real talk though bestie — this page is short because the manpage is short. Don't go reading extra behaviour into it, okay? Stick to what's written. 🍓

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋

This lil cutie came out of the source at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e..., version dated October 2026, and she's filed under e1000_clean_tx_ring(9). Bye bestie, slay your buffers 🧚‍♀️👑