iavf_alloc_rx_buffers(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, meet iavf_alloc_rx_buffers — the function whose whole gig is to replace used receive buffers. That's it, that's the job. We're in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, so the full glow-up name is iavf_alloc_rx_buffers(9). Slay. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool iavf_alloc_rx_buffers (struct iavf_ring *rx_ring , u16
cleaned_count );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rx_ring — the ring where the buffers get placed. Think of it as the receiving line at the club, but for buffers. 🫶
• cleaned_count — the number of buffers to replace. Literally the count of how many used ones we're swapping out.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Here's the vibe check on the return value, and this part matters:

• it returns false if all allocations were successful ✅
• it returns true if any of them fail 😭

so yeah, it's giving "backwards from what your brain expects" — false is the good outcome here. No cap.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c

and the whole friend group of related pages, all accounted for:

iavf_is_descriptor_done(9), iavf_unmap_and_free_tx_resource(9), iavf_clean_tx_ring(9), iavf_free_tx_resources(9), iavf_get_tx_pending(9), iavf_force_wb(9), iavf_detect_recover_hung(9), iavf_clean_tx_irq(9), iavf_enable_wb_on_itr(9), iavf_update_itr(9), iavf_setup_tx_descriptors(9), iavf_clean_rx_ring(9), iavf_free_rx_resources(9), iavf_setup_rx_descriptors(9), iavf_release_rx_desc(9), iavf_receive_skb(9), iavf_rx_csum(9), iavf_legacy_rx_csum(9), iavf_flex_rx_csum(9), iavf_legacy_rx_hash(9), iavf_flex_rx_hash(9), iavf_flex_rx_tstamp(9), iavf_process_skb_fields(9), iavf_cleanup_headers(9), iavf_add_rx_frag(9), iavf_build_skb(9), iavf_is_non_eop(9), iavf_extract_legacy_rx_fields(9), iavf_extract_flex_rx_fields(9), iavf_clean_rx_irq(9), iavf_update_enable_itr(9), iavf_napi_poll(9), iavf_tx_prepare_vlan_flags(9), iavf_tso(9), iavf_tx_enable_csum(9), iavf_create_tx_ctx(9), __iavf_chk_linearize(9), __iavf_maybe_stop_tx(9), iavf_tx_map(9), iavf_xmit_frame_ring(9), iavf_xmit_frame(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came from the source/version line ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf, dated October 2026 — iconic, no notes, periodt. 🧚✨