fm10k_clean_tx_ring(9)

✨ fm10k_clean_tx_ring(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — yes, that one, the fm10k one, and honestly? this page is short and sweet and I'm obsessed with its efficiency. no cap.

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💖 NAME 💖

fm10k_clean_tx_ring — literally just Free Tx Buffers. that's the whole vibe. it cleans, it frees, it slays. 🧚

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void fm10k_clean_tx_ring (struct fm10k_ring *tx_ring );

like… look at her. returns void (she gives nothing back, she's a giver not a taker 💅), takes exactly one pointer, and does the thing.

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• tx_ring — the ring to be cleaned 🧼✨. that's it. that's the argument. hand her the ring and she frees the buffers inside it.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

okay this is the friend group, and they're all icons in their own right, so let's give them their moment 👑

the source file it lives in:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_netdev.c — home base, the origin story 🏠

the Tx-side besties (setup squad):

• fm10k_setup_tx_resources(9)
• fm10k_setup_all_tx_resources(9)

the Rx-side setup girlies:

• fm10k_setup_rx_resources(9)
• fm10k_setup_all_rx_resources(9)

the freeing/cleaning crew:

• fm10k_free_tx_resources(9)
• fm10k_clean_all_tx_rings(9)
• fm10k_free_all_tx_resources(9)
• fm10k_clean_rx_ring(9)
• fm10k_free_rx_resources(9)
• fm10k_clean_all_rx_rings(9)
• fm10k_free_all_rx_resources(9)

the whole extended fam (yes, the entire group chat):

• fm10k_request_glort_range(9)
• fm10k_restore_udp_port_info(9)
• fm10k_udp_tunnel_sync(9)
• fm10k_open(9)
• fm10k_close(9)
• fm10k_tx_timeout(9)
• fm10k_host_mbx_ready(9)
• fm10k_queue_vlan_request(9)
• fm10k_queue_mac_request(9)
• fm10k_clear_macvlan_queue(9)
• fm10k_get_stats64(9)

fr fr, if you're cleaning a Tx ring you're probably gonna bump into at least half of these. iykyk 🫶

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and that's the page!! short, iconic, main character energy from start to finish 💅✨

sign-off time 🎀 — this lil beauty comes to you from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/f... (the path got cut off in the footer, don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 😭) and it's dated October 2026. yes, the future. she's ahead of her time. periodt. 🌈👑