ice_add_vsi(9)

💅 ice_add_vsi(9) 💅

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for ice_add_vsi(9), and it's literally about adding a VSI context to the hardware and VSI handle list. bestie, let's get into it ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

ice_add_vsi — add VSI context to the hardware and VSI handle list 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_add_vsi (struct ice_hw *hw , u16 vsi_handle , struct ice_vsi_ctx
       *vsi_ctx , struct ice_sq_cd *cd );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• hw — pointer to the HW struct 🌸
• vsi_handle — unique VSI handle provided by drivers ✨
• vsi_ctx — pointer to a VSI context struct 🦋
• cd — pointer to command details structure or NULL 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So ice_add_vsi adds a VSI context to the hardware, and it also adds it into the VSI handle list. no cap, that's the whole vibe 🔥

And if this function gets called after reset for existing VSIs, then it updates the corresponding VSI handle list entry with the new HW VSI number. periodt 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c 👑

also pls go peek at these besties, iykyk:

• ice_init_def_sw_recp(9), ice_aq_get_sw_cfg(9), ice_aq_add_vsi(9), ice_aq_free_vsi(9), ice_aq_update_vsi(9), ice_is_vsi_valid(9), ice_get_hw_vsi_num(9), ice_get_vsi_ctx(9)
• ice_save_vsi_ctx(9), ice_clear_vsi_q_ctx(9), ice_clear_vsi_ctx(9), ice_clear_all_vsi_ctx(9), ice_free_vsi(9), ice_update_vsi(9), ice_cfg_rdma_fltr(9), ice_aq_alloc_free_vsi_list(9)
• ice_aq_sw_rules(9), ice_aq_add_recipe(9), ice_aq_get_recipe(9), ice_update_recipe_lkup_idx(9), ice_aq_map_recipe_to_profile(9), ice_aq_get_recipe_to_profile(9), ice_init_chk_recipe_reuse_support(9), ice_alloc_recipe(9)
• ice_free_recipe_res(9), ice_release_recipe_res(9), ice_get_recp_to_prof_map(9), ice_get_recp_frm_fw(9), ice_fill_sw_info(9), ice_fill_eth_hdr(9), ice_fill_sw_rule(9), ice_add_marker_act(9)
• ice_create_vsi_list_map(9), ice_update_vsi_list_rule(9), ice_create_vsi_list_rule(9), ice_create_pkt_fwd_rule(9), ice_update_pkt_fwd_rule(9), ice_update_sw_rule_bridge_mode(9), ice_add_update_vsi_list(9), ice_find_rule_entry(9)
• ice_find_vsi_list_entry(9), ice_add_rule_internal(9), ice_remove_vsi_list_rule(9), ice_rem_update_vsi_list(9), ice_remove_rule_internal(9), ice_vlan_fltr_exist(9), ice_add_mac(9), ice_add_vlan_internal(9)
• ice_add_vlan(9), ice_add_eth_mac(9), ice_remove_eth_mac(9), ice_rem_sw_rule_info(9), ice_rem_adv_rule_info(9), ice_cfg_dflt_vsi(9), ice_vsi_uses_fltr(9), ice_check_if_dflt_vsi(9)
• ice_remove_mac(9), ice_remove_vlan(9), ice_add_entry_to_vsi_fltr_list(9), ice_add_to_vsi_fltr_list(9), ice_determine_promisc_mask(9), ice_remove_promisc(9), ice_clear_vsi_promisc(9), ice_set_vsi_promisc(9)
• ice_set_vlan_vsi_promisc(9), ice_remove_vsi_lkup_fltr(9), ice_remove_vsi_fltr(9), ice_alloc_res_cntr(9), ice_free_res_cntr(9), ice_share_res(9), ice_find_recp(9), ice_change_proto_id_to_dvm(9)
• ice_prot_type_to_id(9), ice_fill_valid_words(9), ice_fill_fv_word_index(9), ice_find_free_recp_res_idx(9), ice_calc_recp_cnt(9), ice_add_sw_recipe(9), ice_subscribe_recipe(9), ice_subscribable_recp_shared(9)
• ice_add_adv_recipe(9), ice_dummy_packet_add_vlan(9), ice_find_dummy_packet(9), ice_fill_adv_dummy_packet(9), ice_fill_adv_packet_tun(9), ice_fill_adv_packet_vlan(9), ice_find_adv_rule_entry(9), ice_adv_add_update_vsi_list(9)
• ice_add_adv_rule(9), ice_replay_vsi_fltr(9), ice_adv_rem_update_vsi_list(9), ice_rem_adv_rule(9), ice_rem_adv_rule_by_id(9), ice_replay_vsi_adv_rule(9), ice_replay_vsi_all_fltr(9), ice_rm_all_sw_replay_rule_info(9)

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okay final cute sign-off tea ☕: this page's source/version footer is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, and the date is October 2026 — slay, bye bestie 💖✨