ice_process_skb_fields(9)

💖 ice_process_skb_fields(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ice_process_skb_fields(9). It’s giving kernel-networking main character energy, and we’re gonna read it together. No cap. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

• ice_process_skb_fields — Populate skb header fields from Rx descriptor. That’s the whole name vibe, periodt. 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void ice_process_skb_fields (struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring , union
       ice_32b_rx_flex_desc *rx_desc , struct sk_buff *skb );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• rx_ring — Rx descriptor ring packet is being transacted on. literally the ring the packet is doing its little transaction on 🫶
• rx_desc — pointer to the EOP Rx descriptor. EOP descriptor pointer, slay. ✨
• skb — pointer to current skb being populated. it’s the skb getting filled in, bestie 💖

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this function checks the ring, descriptor, and packet information — yes, all of that — in order to populate the hash, checksum, VLAN, protocol, and other fields within the skb. It’s lowkey the glow-up pass for the skb header fields, and honestly? iconic. 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx_lib.c — the source file bestie, go look if you’re curious 👀

• ice_release_rx_desc(9)
• ice_get_rx_hash(9)
• ice_rx_hash_to_skb(9)
• ice_rx_gcs(9)
• ice_rx_csum(9)
• ice_ptp_rx_hwts_to_skb(9)
• ice_get_ptype(9)
• ice_receive_skb(9)
• ice_clean_xdp_tx_buf(9)
• ice_clean_xdp_irq(9)
• __ice_xmit_xdp_ring(9)
• ice_finalize_xdp_rx(9)
• ice_xdp_rx_hw_ts(9)
• ice_xdp_rx_hash_type(9)
• ice_xdp_rx_hash(9)
• ice_xdp_rx_vlan_tag(9)

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k bye bestie! this page’s source/version + date tea is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, October 2026, and it’s all for ice_process_skb_fields(9) 🫶✨