free_gid_work(9)

💅 free_gid_work(9) 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

free_gid_work — releases the reference to the GID entry. literally its whole job. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void free_gid_work (struct work_struct *work );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• work — the work structure that points at the GID entry which needs to be deleted 🗑️ like, it's the thing saying "hey, this one's gotta go"

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so free_gid_work frees the entry from the HCA's hardware table — but only if the provider actually supports that, okay? conditional queen 👑 — and it also releases the reference to the netdevice. two jobs, one function, main character energy fr fr 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

kernel file ./drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c and its whole friend group:

• del_gid(9)
• add_modify_gid(9)
• rdma_find_gid_by_port(9)
• rdma_find_gid_by_filter(9)
• rdma_query_gid(9)
• rdma_read_gid_hw_context(9)
• rdma_find_gid(9)
• rdma_get_gid_attr(9)
• rdma_query_gid_table(9)
• rdma_put_gid_attr(9)
• rdma_hold_gid_attr(9)
• rdma_read_gid_attr_ndev_rcu(9)
• rdma_read_gid_l2_fields(9)
• ib_dispatch_event(9)

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aaaand that's the whole page, she's short but she ate 💖 this lil icon lives in ./drivers/infiniband/core, dated October 2026 — screenshot it, cite it, stan it, mwah 😭💜