i40e_free_arq_bufs(9)

✨ i40e_free_arq_bufs(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for i40e_free_arq_bufs — yes that's the section 9 kernel API one, we're in the deep end together and honestly? we're gonna slay it. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

i40e_free_arq_bufs — the lil cleanup queen that frees the receive queue buffer info elements 💅

like, it's the function that goes "we're done here, bye" to all that ARQ buffer info. no cap.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void i40e_free_arq_bufs (struct i40e_hw *hw );

that's it. one argument. returns void, so nothing comes back — it just Does The Thing and dips. ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to the hardware structure 🖥️ ngl this is the one and only thing you hand over, and it's literally a pointer to the hardware structure. that's the whole assignment.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay this is the part where the manpage just lists its entire friend group and honestly the way it goes on — main character energy fr fr. here's everyone:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c 📁 (yes, that's where the source lives, go look at it, iykyk)
• i40e_alloc_adminq_asq_ring(9)
• i40e_alloc_adminq_arq_ring(9)
• i40e_free_adminq_asq(9)
• i40e_free_adminq_arq(9)
• i40e_alloc_arq_bufs(9)
• i40e_alloc_asq_bufs(9)
• i40e_free_asq_bufs(9)
• i40e_config_asq_regs(9)
• i40e_config_arq_regs(9)
• i40e_init_asq(9)
• i40e_init_arq(9)
• i40e_shutdown_asq(9)
• i40e_shutdown_arq(9)
• i40e_set_hw_caps(9)
• i40e_init_adminq(9)
• i40e_shutdown_adminq(9)
• i40e_clean_asq(9)
• i40e_asq_done(9)
• i40e_asq_send_command_atomic_exec(9)
• i40e_asq_send_command_atomic(9)
• i40e_asq_send_command_atomic_v2(9)
• i40e_fill_default_direct_cmd_desc(9)
• i40e_clean_arq_element(9)

like i said. entire friend group. 💀 but they're all iconic so we keep them. 🧚

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lowkey reminder: this page is just the free-er, not the alloc-ator — if you're looking for the setup side, that's i40e_alloc_arq_bufs(9) up there in SEE ALSO. 🍓

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and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this page is from the kernel file tree at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, dated October 2026, and it goes out to i40e_free_arq_bufs(9). mwah, go free those buffers 💖🌈⭐