iavf_clean_arq_element(9)

💖 iavf_clean_arq_element(9) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, because we're diving into the Kernel API Manual and this one's a little kernel-side gem from the iavf driver squad 🧚✨ It lives in the admin queue corner of the world and honestly? It's giving "quietly essential" and I'm obsessed 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

iavf_clean_arq_element — and yeah that's the whole name field, the original page doesn't spell it out any further, so we're running with the function name and vibing 🌸

(for real though — the NAME section is literally just the function and a dash. iconic minimalism, no notes 🎀)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

enum iavf_status iavf_clean_arq_element (struct iavf_hw *hw,
                                         struct iavf_arq_event_info *e,
                                         u16 *pending);

so it returns an enum iavf_status, takes three things, and that's the whole mood 💜

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• hw — a pointer to the hw struct. yes bestie, the hardware struct, the main character of the whole driver 👑
• e — the event info from the receive descriptor, which includes any buffers. this is where the good stuff gets handed back to you 🎁
• pending — the number of events that could be left to process. a little peek at the queue's remaining to-do list 📋

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so what does it actually DO 😭 This function cleans one Admin Receive Queue element and returns the contents through e. One element. That's it. Very "one thing at a time, we're being mindful in 2026" of it 💅

It can also return how many events are left to process through pending — lowkey a little bonus intel about the queue's leftovers 🍓

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

the kernel file this lives in, for the curious girlies who like to read source on a friday night:

./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_adminq.c

and the whole friend group of related calls — every single one, no gatekeeping:

• iavf_alloc_adminq_asq_ring(9)
• iavf_alloc_adminq_arq_ring(9)
• iavf_free_adminq_asq(9)
• iavf_free_adminq_arq(9)
• iavf_alloc_arq_bufs(9)
• iavf_alloc_asq_bufs(9)
• iavf_free_arq_bufs(9)
• iavf_free_asq_bufs(9)
• iavf_config_asq_regs(9)
• iavf_config_arq_regs(9)
• iavf_init_asq(9)
• iavf_init_arq(9)
• iavf_shutdown_asq(9)
• iavf_shutdown_arq(9)
• iavf_init_adminq(9)
• iavf_shutdown_adminq(9)
• iavf_clean_asq(9)
• iavf_asq_done(9)
• iavf_asq_send_command(9)
• iavf_fill_default_direct_cmd_desc(9)

ngl if you're poking at the ASQ side after reading this, go check iavf_clean_asq(9) — it's the sibling situation, and the ARQ/ASQ duo really is the moment 🔥

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✨ k bye ily, go clean that one (1) element ✨

this page came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf and it's dated October 2026 — see you in the next manual page, bestie 🎀💖🦋