hclgevf_get_channels(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Okay bestie, this is hclgevf_get_channels(9) from the Kernel API Manual — and it does exactly what it says on the tin: get the current channels enabled and max supported ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void hclgevf_get_channels (struct hnae3_handle *handle , struct ethtool_channels *ch );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• handle — the hardware information for the network interface, iykyk 💅
• ch — the ethtool channels structure, iconic little container fr fr 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the vibe: we don't support separate tx and rx queues as channels — that's just not the model here, periodt. The other count represents how many queues are being used for control. And max_combined counts how many queue pairs we can support.

Now, lowkey important: they may not be mapped 1 to 1 with q_vectors, because we support a lot more queue pairs than q_vectors 👑. That's the whole tea. No extra mapping guarantees, no cap.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c — go read the source, bestie, it's giving main character energy 🔥

Bestie sign-off: this lil page came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/hisilic..., dated October 2026, and it's literally hclgevf_get_channels(9) 💜🧚‍♀️