ENUM ICE_TX_BUF_TYPE(9)

✨ enum ice_tx_buf_type(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 — this one's a little enum from the Intel ice driver and it's literally just the vibes of "which kind of Tx buffer am I looking at rn?" 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

enum ice_tx_buf_type — tells you the type of &ice_tx_buf to act on at Tx completion 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

enum ice_tx_buf_type {
    ICE_TX_BUF_EMPTY ,
    ICE_TX_BUF_DUMMY ,
    ICE_TX_BUF_FRAG ,
    ICE_TX_BUF_SKB ,
    ICE_TX_BUF_XDP_TX ,
    ICE_TX_BUF_XDP_XMIT ,
    ICE_TX_BUF_XSK_TX

};

like… seven little constants, seven little personalities, each one telling the Tx completion path what it's actually cleaning up 🧚 no cap.

💅 Constants 💅

• ICE_TX_BUF_EMPTY — unused OR XSk frame, so genuinely no action required 🙈 it's giving "nothing to see here, move along".
• ICE_TX_BUF_DUMMY — dummy Flow Director packet 💀 unmap it and kfree it, that's the whole job.
• ICE_TX_BUF_FRAG — a mapped skb OR an xdp_buff frag — only unmap the DMA, that's it, don't do anything extra 🎀
• ICE_TX_BUF_SKB — an sk_buff: unmap and consume_skb, then update stats ✨ (the full package, honestly).
• ICE_TX_BUF_XDP_TX — an xdp_buff: unmap and page_frag_free, plus stats 🔥
• ICE_TX_BUF_XDP_XMIT — an xdp_frame: unmap and xdp_return_frame, plus stats 👑
• ICE_TX_BUF_XSK_TX — an xdp_buff on the XSk queue: xsk_buff_free, plus stats 🌈

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.h — the source of truth, go read it bestie 📖
• ice_stats_read(9)
• ice_stats_inc(9)

that's the whole page, main character energy and all 🌟 — brought to you by the source at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, October 2026 edition of the Kernel API Manual. slay, go unmap something responsibly 💜🦋