i40e_clean_tx_ring(9)

🦋 i40e_clean_tx_ring(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, you're looking at the man page for i40e_clean_tx_ring(9) — yes, that's the manual name, we're not doing the boring header copy thing, love that for us 💅. This is a whole kernel-API moment and honestly it's giving "small function, big job." Let's get into it.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

i40e_clean_tx_ring — free any empty Tx buffers 🧹✨

like literally, it's the cleanup crew. empty buffers? gone. no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void i40e_clean_tx_ring (struct i40e_ring *tx_ring );

returns nothing (void), takes one pointer, we move 💫

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• tx_ring — the ring to be cleaned 🧼 the actual ring you're tidying up. that's it. that's the whole vibe check.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

bestie there are SO many siblings, this function has a huge family, and we're listing every single one because we don't do "etc." around here 👑

first up, the source file itself, lowkey the main character:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c

and now the whole friend group, in order, no one left out 🫶:

• i40e_fdir(9)
• i40e_program_fdir_filter(9)
• i40e_create_dummy_packet(9)
• i40e_create_dummy_udp_packet(9)
• i40e_create_dummy_tcp_packet(9)
• i40e_create_dummy_sctp_packet(9)
• i40e_prepare_fdir_filter(9)
• i40e_change_filter_num(9)
• i40e_add_del_fdir_udp(9)
• i40e_add_del_fdir_tcp(9)
• i40e_add_del_fdir_sctp(9)
• i40e_add_del_fdir_ip(9)
• i40e_add_del_fdir(9)
• i40e_fd_handle_status(9)
• i40e_unmap_and_free_tx_resource(9)
• i40e_free_tx_resources(9)
• i40e_get_tx_pending(9)
• i40e_detect_recover_hung(9)
• i40e_clean_tx_irq(9)
• i40e_enable_wb_on_itr(9)
• i40e_force_wb(9)
• i40e_update_itr(9)
• i40e_reuse_rx_page(9)
• i40e_clean_programming_status(9)
• i40e_setup_tx_descriptors(9)
• i40e_clean_rx_ring(9)
• i40e_free_rx_resources(9)
• i40e_setup_rx_descriptors(9)
• i40e_release_rx_desc(9)
• i40e_alloc_mapped_page(9)
• i40e_alloc_rx_buffers(9)
• i40e_rx_checksum(9)
• i40e_rx_hash(9)
• i40e_process_skb_fields(9)
• i40e_cleanup_headers(9)
• i40e_can_reuse_rx_page(9)
• i40e_rx_buffer_flip(9)
• i40e_get_rx_buffer(9)
• i40e_put_rx_buffer(9)
• i40e_process_rx_buffs(9)
• i40e_construct_skb(9)
• i40e_build_skb(9)
• i40e_is_non_eop(9)
• i40e_run_xdp(9)
• i40e_xdp_ring_update_tail(9)
• i40e_update_rx_stats(9)
• i40e_finalize_xdp_rx(9)
• i40e_inc_ntp(9)
• i40e_add_xdp_frag(9)
• i40e_consume_xdp_buff(9)
• i40e_clean_rx_irq(9)
• i40e_buildreg_itr(9)
• i40e_update_enable_itr(9)
• i40e_napi_poll(9)
• i40e_atr(9)
• i40e_tx_prepare_vlan_flags(9)
• i40e_tso(9)
• i40e_tsyn(9)
• i40e_tx_enable_csum(9)
• i40e_create_tx_ctx(9)
• __i40e_maybe_stop_tx(9)
• __i40e_chk_linearize(9)
• i40e_tx_map(9)
• i40e_xmit_xdp_ring(9)
• i40e_xmit_frame_ring(9)
• i40e_lan_xmit_frame(9)
• i40e_xdp_xmit(9)

ngl that's a LOT of see-alsos but we said "every single one" and we meant it 💀✨

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅🌈

cute little sign-off: this one lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e and it's dated October 2026 — iconic, future-dated, always ahead of the trend ⭐🦋 bye pookie 🎀