ice_clean_sq(9)

💅 ice_clean_sq(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie 💅

okay so this is ice_clean_sq(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and we are gonna get you caught up. It’s short, it’s sweet, it’s giving “small function, big queue energy.” ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

ice_clean_sq — cleans send side of a control queue

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature is right here, no edits, spaces and all:

u16 ice_clean_sq (struct ice_hw *hw , struct ice_ctl_q_info *cq );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• hw — pointer to the hardware structure. like, the hardware struct pointer, periodt.
• cq — pointer to the specific Control queue. not a random queue, bestie — the specific Control queue.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so the description is literally one line and it’s returns the number of free desc. that’s the whole thing. no extra lore, no secret bonus paragraph, just free desc. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_controlq.c

and now the whole friend group, no skips, no cap:

• ice_adminq_init_regs(9)
• ice_mailbox_init_regs(9)
• ice_sb_init_regs(9)
• ice_check_sq_alive(9)
• ice_alloc_ctrlq_sq_ring(9)
• ice_alloc_ctrlq_rq_ring(9)
• ice_free_cq_ring(9)
• ice_alloc_rq_bufs(9)
• ice_alloc_sq_bufs(9)
• ice_cfg_sq_regs(9)
• ice_cfg_rq_regs(9)
• ice_init_sq(9)
• ice_init_rq(9)
• ice_shutdown_sq(9)
• ice_aq_ver_check(9)
• ice_shutdown_rq(9)
• ice_init_check_adminq(9)
• ice_init_ctrlq(9)
• ice_is_sbq_supported(9)
• ice_get_sbq(9)
• ice_shutdown_ctrlq(9)
• ice_shutdown_all_ctrlq(9)
• ice_init_all_ctrlq(9)
• ice_init_ctrlq_locks(9)
• ice_create_all_ctrlq(9)
• ice_destroy_ctrlq_locks(9)
• ice_destroy_all_ctrlq(9)
• ice_ctl_q_str(9)
• ice_debug_cq(9)
• ice_sq_done(9)
• ice_sq_send_cmd(9)
• ice_fill_dflt_direct_cmd_desc(9)
• ice_clean_rq_elem(9)

xoxo, bestie — that’s ice_clean_sq(9) from source/version ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026 🎀💖