ice_fill_sw_rule(9)

👑 ice_fill_sw_rule — like, the Kernel API Manual era 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to ice_fill_sw_rule(9), glam edition ✨ this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and honestly? she's a helper function, and helpers are the backbone of everything, no cap 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_fill_sw_rule — the helper function that fills the switch rule structure. that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ice_fill_sw_rule (struct ice_hw *hw , struct ice_fltr_info *f_info
, struct ice_sw_rule_lkup_rx_tx *s_rule , enum ice_adminq_opc opc );

return type is void, so like… she gives nothing back emotionally, but she does the work. main character energy fr 🔥

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to the hardware structure. yes queen, point at the hardware 💜
• f_info — the entry that's holding all the packet forwarding info. the little info bag, iykyk 🍓
• s_rule — the switch rule structure that gets filled in based on mac_entry. fill her in, bestie ✨
• opc — the switch rules population command type — you literally pass in the command opcode here. just pass it in 💅

ngl if you're passing an opcode, make sure it's the opcode for the switch rules population command, because that's what this argument is and we don't guess 🌸

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

first up, the actual kernel file, and yes she's iconic:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c 💖

and now the friend group — the entire extended crew, in order, no one gets left out 🫶:

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_add_vsi(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_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)

and more of the girlies, still going, she's not done 🎀:

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)

and the last little squad, periodt 🔥:

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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k bye bestie, go fill that switch rule 💖✨

oh and one last thing — this whole page comes from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and the page herself is ice_fill_sw_rule(9) 🦋 slay, drink water, mwah 💜