i40e_clean_rx_ring(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 i40e_clean_rx_ring(9) — free Rx buffers ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🌸 and today's main character is i40e_clean_rx_ring — she's the one who frees the Rx buffers. her whole job, her whole era. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

i40e_clean_rx_ring — free Rx buffers, that's literally it, that's the gig 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void i40e_clean_rx_ring (struct i40e_ring *rx_ring );

no cap, that's the whole signature. void return, so she doesn't even give you a value back — she just does the thing and dips 💅

🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

  • rx_ring — the ring that's getting cleaned. that's it. that's the vibe check. it's a struct i40e_ring * and it's the ring to be cleaned. 🧚

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

first up, the actual lore lives in the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c — go read her source, she ate. 📖✨

and now the whole extended friend group, in the order the manpage gives them (do not come for me about the order, this is sacred):

bestie fr fr, that's a lot of cross-references — don't skip any of them, they're all lowkey part of the same i40e universe and they all deserve their moment 👑

and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — this little love letter comes to you from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, dated October 2026, and she's filed under i40e_clean_rx_ring(9) in case you need to find her again 🫶✨

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