iavf_clean_rx_ring(9)

💖 iavf_clean_rx_ring(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes, the actual kernel API manual, and yes, we're gonna have a good time with it. This page is all about iavf_clean_rx_ring, and honestly? It's giving cleanup era. 🧹✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

iavf_clean_rx_ring — the function that frees your Rx buffers. That's it, that's the whole vibe. It cleans the ring, it frees the buffers, it moves on with its life. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void iavf_clean_rx_ring (struct iavf_ring *rx_ring );

no cap, that's the whole signature. returns void — it doesn't hand you back a value, it just does the thing and dips. 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rx_ring — the ring that's getting cleaned, periodt. that's the one. you point at it, it gets cleaned. lowkey the most important part of this whole operation honestly 🫶

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

okay this is the fun part — the whole friend group. literally the entire iavf extended universe is linked below, so go say hi 👋

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c — the actual source file where this lives, go read it iykyk
• 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_free_rx_resources(9)
• iavf_setup_rx_descriptors(9)
• iavf_release_rx_desc(9)
• iavf_receive_skb(9)
• iavf_alloc_rx_buffers(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)

that's forty-two entries bestie, and every single one of them is here because we do NOT skip the group photo. 📸

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ngl if you're cleaning an Rx ring you probably already know why. but if you don't? go read iavf_free_rx_resources(9) next, she's right there in the list 🫶

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✨ and that's the page! ✨ this little masterpiece ships from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf and it's dated October 2026 — future-proof and fabulous, as always. mwah 💋 see you in the next man 9, bestie! 🎀🦋💖