ice_release_vf(9)

💖 ice_release_vf(9) 💖

hiii bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ice_release_vf(9). This is the lowkey cleanup-era kernel function, and yes, we're gonna get into it. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

• ice_release_vf — releases the VF that's associated with a refcount, periodt. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ice_release_vf (struct kref *ref );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• ref — the kref that gets decremented to zero. That's the whole argument, bestie.

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so ice_release_vf is the callback function for kref_put, and its job is literally to release a VF once its reference count has hit zero. It's giving "final rose ceremony" for the refcount 😭 — when the count hits zero, the VF gets released. That's the vibe, and that's the detail.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie, if you want the full lore, these are the related kernel file and functions. All of them are linked here so you can go spelunking, iykyk 🫶

• Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_lib.c
• ice_get_vf_by_id(9)
• ice_put_vf(9)
• ice_has_vfs(9)
• ice_get_num_vfs(9)
• ice_get_vf_vsi(9)
• ice_is_vf_disabled(9)
• ice_wait_on_vf_reset(9)
• ice_check_vf_ready_for_cfg(9)
• ice_trigger_vf_reset(9)
• ice_vf_pre_vsi_rebuild(9)
• ice_vf_reconfig_vsi(9)
• ice_vf_rebuild_vsi(9)
• ice_vf_rebuild_host_vlan_cfg(9)
• ice_vf_rebuild_host_tx_rate_cfg(9)
• ice_vf_set_host_trust_cfg(9)
• ice_vf_rebuild_host_mac_cfg(9)
• ice_vf_rebuild_aggregator_node_cfg(9)
• ice_vf_rebuild_host_cfg(9)
• ice_set_vf_state_qs_dis(9)
• ice_vf_set_initialized(9)
• ice_vf_post_vsi_rebuild(9)
• ice_is_any_vf_in_unicast_promisc(9)
• ice_vf_get_promisc_masks(9)
• ice_vf_clear_all_promisc_modes(9)
• ice_vf_set_vsi_promisc(9)
• ice_vf_clear_vsi_promisc(9)
• ice_reset_vf_mbx_cnt(9)
• ice_reset_all_vfs(9)
• ice_notify_vf_reset(9)
• ice_reset_interrupts(9)
• ice_reset_vf(9)
• ice_set_vf_state_dis(9)
• ice_initialize_vf_entry(9)
• ice_dis_vf_qs(9)
• ice_err_to_virt_err(9)
• ice_check_vf_init(9)
• ice_vf_get_port_info(9)
• ice_cfg_mac_antispoof(9)
• ice_vsi_ena_spoofchk(9)
• ice_vsi_dis_spoofchk(9)
• ice_vsi_apply_spoofchk(9)
• ice_is_vf_trusted(9)
• ice_vf_has_no_qs_ena(9)
• ice_is_vf_link_up(9)
• ice_vf_ctrl_invalidate_vsi(9)
• ice_vf_ctrl_vsi_release(9)
• ice_vf_ctrl_vsi_setup(9)
• ice_vf_init_host_cfg(9)
• ice_vf_invalidate_vsi(9)
• ice_vf_vsi_release(9)
• ice_get_vf_ctrl_vsi(9)
• ice_vf_update_mac_lldp_num(9)

xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 — source/version check: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, fr fr. 🫶