ice_clean_rq_elem(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_clean_rq_elem(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up

okay so bestie, welcome to the ice_clean_rq_elem(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes that Kernel API Manual, the one that's lowkey the blueprint of everything 🫶. Sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

ice_clean_rq_elem —

real talk, the original page leaves this line literally blank after the dash 😭. No description, no nothing. It's giving mysterious main character energy 👑. So we're just gonna say: this is the function, that's the name, and the whole personality reveal happens down in DESCRIPTION. Periodt.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ice_clean_rq_elem (struct ice_hw *hw , struct ice_ctl_q_info *cq ,
struct ice_rq_event_info *e , u16 *pending );

look at her go 😌 four args, returns an int, no cap. Copy it exactly if you're calling it, iykyk.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to the HW struct. that's the hardware situation, the whole vibe of the device, bestie 💖
  • cq — pointer to the specific Control queue. one specific queue, not all of them, she's got a name and she's not sharing the spotlight ✨
  • e — event info from the receive descriptor, includes any buffers. so like, the event info plus the buffers riding along with it 🦋
  • pending — number of events that could be left to process. the "how much homework is still in the bag" count 💀

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so here's the actual tea 🔥: this function cleans one element from the receive side of a control queue. one. element. she's not doing the whole queue, she's not doing overtime, she's doing exactly one and going home 🎀

On return, 'e' contains the contents of the message, and 'pending' contains the number of events left to process. so yeah — you hand her a queue, she hands you back the message and a headcount of what's still lurking in there 👀. iconic behaviour, honestly.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the friend group 💜 — all of these are on the same wavelength:

like, the whole squad showed up 🌈. read them, love them, they're all (9) and they all ate 💅.

and that's the page, bestie 🫶 source of all this wisdom lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and honestly? she was ahead of her time ⭐💖

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