i40e_vsi_stop_rings_no_wait(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 i40e_vsi_stop_rings_no_wait(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — yes, the Kernel API Manual, we're doing Big Kernel Energy today. This one's a tiny little function with a big "I'm in a rush" attitude, and honestly? She's iconic for it. Let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

i40e_vsi_stop_rings_no_wait — stop a VSI's rings and do not delay, bestie. We are NOT waiting. Not today. Not ever. 🏃‍♀️💨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void i40e_vsi_stop_rings_no_wait (struct i40e_vsi *vsi );

yes that's literally the whole thing. she's short. she's sweet. she has zero patience 💀

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • vsi — the VSI being shutdown 🦋. That's the one and only arg, no bonus params, no secret extras, no cap.

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so here's the vibe, okay? This function stops all the rings for a VSI, but — and this is the whole point of her whole personality — it does not delay to verify that the rings have actually been disabled. Like, she hits send and walks away. no follow-up text, no "did u see my message", nothing 💅

The assumption baked in here is that the caller is shutting down multiple VSIs at once, and will do one big group delay for all the VSIs after initiating the shutdown. Think of it like texting the whole group chat at once instead of one person at a time — way less waiting around 😭

The manpage is very clear that this is particularly useful for shutting down lots of VFs together. And why, you ask? Because otherwise you'd get a huge delay while configuring each VSI in serial — one after another after another — and nobody has time for that. That's giving "standing in line at the DMV" energy and we are simply not doing it 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the source itself:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c

and then... the whole extended friend group 💖 (yes, literally all of them, every single one, I'm not skipping a single bestie):

like. the whole roster. main character energy from every single one of them 💜

and that's the whole page bestie!! sourced fresh from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual — mwah 😘 go stop some rings, and remember: do NOT delay 💅✨🦋

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