ice_run_xdp(9)

💅 ice_run_xdp(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to ice_run_xdp, one of those kernel API manual pages (that's the manual name btw, "Kernel API Manual" — iconic), and honestly this one is short but it's doing something. it runs an XDP program on an already-initialized xdp_buff. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

ice_run_xdp — executes an XDP program on initialized xdp_buff 🦋

like, it literally does what it says on the tin. the buff's already been set up, you're just here to run the program on it. slay.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

u32 ice_run_xdp (struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring , struct libeth_xdp_buff
*xdp , struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog , struct ice_tx_ring *xdp_ring , union
ice_32b_rx_flex_desc *eop_desc );

five args, one u32 coming back out, that's the whole relationship. 🤝

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rx_ring — the Rx ring 💖 like the ring we're receiving on, bestie. that's it, that's the arg.
• xdp — the xdp_buff that gets fed in as input to the XDP program. it's the main character of this function ngl 👑
• xdp_prog — the actual XDP program we're running. the one doing the work. we're just the venue. ✨
• xdp_ring — the ring that gets used for the XDP_TX action. so if your program says "send this back out", this is the ring that handles it 📤
• eop_desc — the last descriptor in the packet, and it's where we read the metadata from 🍓 "eop" = end of packet, iykyk

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so hear me out: this function returns any of ICE_XDP_{PASS, CONSUMED, TX, REDIR}.

that's it. that's the description. short king. 💀 it hands you back one of those four outcomes and you take it from there. lowkey the braces are doing a lot of work here but like — we respect it.

no extra lore here bestie, the page really is this brief. don't go inventing behaviour, that's not the vibe check we're going for 🙈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the kernel file it lives in — go look, it's right there:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c

and the whole friend group (yes there are a lot of them, this driver has main character energy and a huge contact list) 👑

• ice_prgm_fdir_fltr(9)
• ice_unmap_and_free_tx_buf(9)
• ice_clean_tstamp_ring(9)
• ice_free_tstamp_ring(9)
• ice_free_tx_tstamp_ring(9)
• ice_clean_tx_ring(9)
• ice_free_tx_ring(9)
• ice_clean_tx_irq(9)
• ice_alloc_tstamp_ring(9)
• ice_setup_tstamp_ring(9)
• ice_alloc_setup_tstamp_ring(9)
• ice_setup_tx_ring(9)
• ice_clean_rx_ring(9)
• ice_free_rx_ring(9)
• ice_setup_rx_ring(9)
• ice_xmit_xdp_ring(9)
• ice_xdp_xmit(9)
• ice_init_ctrl_rx_descs(9)
• ice_alloc_rx_bufs(9)
• ice_clean_ctrl_rx_irq(9)
• ice_clean_rx_irq(9)
• ice_net_dim(9)
• ice_buildreg_itr(9)
• ice_enable_interrupt(9)
• ice_set_wb_on_itr(9)
• ice_napi_poll(9)
• __ice_maybe_stop_tx(9)
• ice_maybe_stop_tx(9)
• ice_tx_map(9)
• ice_tx_csum(9)
• ice_tx_prepare_vlan_flags(9)
• ice_tso(9)
• ice_txd_use_count(9)
• ice_xmit_desc_count(9)
• __ice_chk_linearize(9)
• ice_chk_linearize(9)
• ice_tstamp(9)
• ice_xmit_frame_ring(9)
• ice_start_xmit(9)
• ice_get_dscp_up(9)
• ice_clean_ctrl_tx_irq(9)

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and that's the page!! 💜 mwah. this little gem lives over in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and it's page ice_run_xdp(9) — go forth and run your XDP programs, bestie, you're gonna ate 🫶✨