gsi_channel_doorbell(9)

🛎️ ring that doorbell, bestie 🛎️

okay so welcome to the gsi_channel_doorbell(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — this one is short, sweet, and honestly kinda iconic for it. We’re ringing a channel’s doorbell. That’s the whole vibe. 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

gsi_channel_doorbell — literally rings a channel’s doorbell 🛎️✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void gsi_channel_doorbell (struct gsi_channel *channel );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• channel — the channel whose doorbell should be rung, bestie 🫶

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🛎️ DESCRIPTION 🛎️

Rings a channel’s doorbell to tell the GSI hardware that new transactions — TREs, really — are available for it to process. That’s it. That’s the whole main character moment. 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ipa/gsi_private.h

• gsi_trans_move_complete(9)
• gsi_trans_move_polled(9)
• gsi_trans_complete(9)
• gsi_channel_trans_mapped(9)
• gsi_channel_trans_complete(9)
• gsi_channel_trans_cancel_pending(9)
• gsi_channel_trans_init(9)
• gsi_channel_trans_exit(9)
• gsi_ring_virt(9)
• gsi_trans_tx_committed(9)
• gsi_trans_tx_queued(9)

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mwah 💋 — source/version ./drivers/net/ipa, dated October 2026. that’s the whole gsi_channel_doorbell(9) situation, bestie: short page, clear mission, ring responsibly 🫶✨