ice_release_rx_desc(9)

💅 ice_release_rx_desc(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for ice_release_rx_desc — yes it's a mouthful, yes it's iconic, no we're not skipping anything. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ice_release_rx_desc — store the new tail and head values 💫

Like, that's literally the whole job. It bumps stuff, it stores stuff, it's giving "tiny function, main character energy." 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ice_release_rx_desc (struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring , u16 val );

No cap, that's the signature. Returns void, so don't go looking for a return value, she doesn't have one. 🙈

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rx_ring — the ring to bump 💅 fr fr, this is the ring you're bumping.
• val — the new head index ✨ that's the value, that's the head index, that's the vibe.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

First up, the kernel file she lives in (iykyk):

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx_lib.c

And now the whole friend group 😭 — every single one, no skipping:

• 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_process_skb_fields(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)

Go read them all, bestie, they're all slay. 🌈

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lowkey reminder: this page came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice and it's dated October 2026 — so like, write that in your notes or whatever. 🍓

that's the page!! ice_release_rx_desc(9) ate and left no crumbs, mwah 💖🧚‍♀️