ice_alloc_fd_shrd_item(9)

✨ ice_alloc_fd_shrd_item(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, page ice_alloc_fd_shrd_item(9) 💅 this one's a little baby function but she's important — she's out here allocating resources for flow director shared entries 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_alloc_fd_shrd_item — allocate resource for flow director shared entries, no cap 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int ice_alloc_fd_shrd_item (struct ice_hw *hw , u16 *cntr_id , u16
num_fltr );

like literally that's it, she's an int returning lil icon ✨

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• hw — pointer to the hardware structure 🫶 (the main character of this whole operation, honestly)
• cntr_id — returns counter index 🔥 so yeah, she writes back into this one
• num_fltr — number of filter entries to be allocated 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_fdir.c ⭐
• ice_set_dflt_val_fd_desc(9)
• ice_set_fd_desc_val(9)
• ice_fdir_get_prgm_desc(9)
• ice_alloc_fd_res_cntr(9)
• ice_free_fd_res_cntr(9)
• ice_alloc_fd_guar_item(9)
• ice_get_fdir_cnt_all(9)
• ice_pkt_insert_ipv6_addr(9)
• ice_pkt_insert_u6_qfi(9)
• ice_pkt_insert_u8(9)
• ice_pkt_insert_u8_tc(9)
• ice_pkt_insert_u16(9)
• ice_pkt_insert_u32(9)
• ice_pkt_insert_mac_addr(9)
• ice_fdir_get_gen_prgm_pkt(9)
• ice_fdir_has_frag(9)
• ice_fdir_find_fltr_by_idx(9)
• ice_fdir_list_add_fltr(9)
• ice_fdir_update_cntrs(9)
• ice_cmp_ipv6_addr(9)
• ice_fdir_comp_rules(9)
• ice_fdir_is_dup_fltr(9)

like the whole friend group fr fr, go read them too 🧚

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💀 reminder bestie: cntr_id is an output — she fills it in for you. don't go reading it before the call like it's gonna have anything useful in it 🙈

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and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this iconic lil entry lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and yes she ships as ice_alloc_fd_shrd_item(9) — slay, periodt, go allocate some shared entries bestie 💜🌸