ice_dpll_periodic_work(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_dpll_periodic_work — Kernel API Manual, section 9 ✨

okay bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is ice_dpll_periodic_work. it's a tiny little function but it does not miss. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_dpll_periodic_work — the DPLLs periodic worker, periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ice_dpll_periodic_work (struct kthread_work *work );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • work — a pointer to a struct kthread_work structure. that's it, that's the whole argument. she's lowkey simple like that 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the DPLLs periodic worker is, like, the responsible one in the group chat 💖 its whole job is polling the state of dpll. literally just checking in on the vibe of the DPLL, over and over, on a schedule. no cap, that's the whole plot.

🔥 CONTEXT 🔥

heads up bestie, this one holds pf->dplls.lock — so mind your locks, okay? 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first things first, the kernel file we're living in:

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c

and then, okay, the friend group is large, i'm not even gonna lie. every single one of these, in order, no skips:

and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚💜

sign-off szn: this one lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, and it's dated October 2026 🌈 go poll some DPLL states, ily, bye 🎀

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