ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer(9)

💖 ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer — the Kernel API Manual moment 🎀

okay so bestie, real talk: this is ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer(9), a little function from the Kernel API Manual and honestly it's giving "small but crucial" energy. The name literally means "Harvest buffer from pool" and yes we are out here picking buffers like they're strawberries 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer — harvest buffer from pool 🌾

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer (struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter , bool
reuse );

she takes two things and returns an int, no cap 💅

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• adapter — pointer to adapter. that's it, that's the whole vibe, it's your adapter pointer 🫶
• reuse — whether to reuse buffer. bool, so it's a yes-or-no situation, iconic honestly ✨

👑 CONTEXT 👑

called from ibmveth_poll — that's the only place, that's her home, her main character energy 🌈

💀 RETURN 💀

• 0 — success 🎉 slay, everything worked
• other — non-zero return from ibmveth_remove_buffer_from_pool 😭 not the vibe, but at least you know where it came from

heads up bestie: "other" means a non-zero return from ibmveth_remove_buffer_from_pool, so if you get something weird, that's the function to go stare at 🔥

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c 📁

and the whole friend group, fr fr:

• ibmveth_remove_buffer_from_pool(9)
• ibmveth_reset(9)
• ibmveth_get_desired_dma(9)
• veth_pool_store(9)
• ibmveth_reset_kunit(9)
• ibmveth_remove_buffer_from_pool_test(9)
• ibmveth_rxq_get_buffer_test(9)

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 this one lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/ibm and the dated version of this whole thing is October 2026, so like… future vibes but also the exact footer energy, iykyk 🦋 go harvest ur buffers bestie 💅✨