ice_add_update_vsi_list(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_add_update_vsi_list(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the section 9 glow-up of ice_add_update_vsi_list 💖 yes she's a kernel API page, yes she's from the Kernel API Manual, and yes she's showing up in section 9 like the icon she is. grab your iced coffee, we're doing bookkeeping 🧚

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_add_update_vsi_list

and that's it, that's the name section 😭 the original literally hits the dash and dips — no description, no notes, nothing. main character energy fr fr 💀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_add_update_vsi_list (struct ice_hw *hw , struct
ice_fltr_mgmt_list_entry *m_entry , struct ice_fltr_info *cur_fltr ,
struct ice_fltr_info *new_fltr );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to the hardware structure 🖥️ like, the whole hardware vibe lives here
  • m_entry — pointer to current filter management list entry 📋 the bookkeeping receipt, basically
  • cur_fltr — filter information from the book keeping entry 🔎 what was already written down
  • new_fltr — filter information with the new VSI to be added 🆕 the new bestie joining the group chat

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what she does: call AQ command to add or update previously created VSI list with new VSI 🌈 slay.

She's also a helper function to do book keeping associated with adding filter information 🔥 — the responsible one in the friend group who actually remembers everyone's birthdays.

The algorithm to do the book keeping is described below 👇 (and ngl, the source text is one big run-on with no punctuation, so we're breaking it out gentle-style, no cap):

  • When a VSI needs to subscribe to a given filter (MAC/VLAN/Ethtype etc.) 🏷️
    • if only one VSI has been added till now → Allocate a new VSI list and add two VSIs to this list using switch rule command ✨
    • Update the previously created switch rule with the newly created VSI list ID 🔁
    • if a VSI list was previously created → Add the new VSI to the previously created VSI list set using the update switch rule command 💫

periodt. that's the whole algorithm, nothing skipped, nothing invented 💅

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c 🦋 — go read it, she's iconic.

And now, the extended family 💖 no seriously, everyone's invited:

and that's the whole page, bestie 💫 nobody left behind, no cap 🫶

sign-off time 🎀 this lil masterpiece comes from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and she answers to the name ice_add_update_vsi_list(9) — remember it, screenshot it, put it on your fridge 🔥💖

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