ice_tstamp(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_tstamp — the man page, but make it make sense

okay so we're in ice_tstamp(9) territory, bestie — that's the kernel API manual, and this lil function is the one that sets up the context descriptor for hardware timestamp ✨ like, it's literally the glow-up the descriptor gets before it goes out. no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

ice_tstamp — set up context descriptor for hardware timestamp

she's giving "prep the descriptor so the hardware knows we care about timestamps" energy, and honestly? iconic. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ice_tstamp (struct ice_tx_ring *tx_ring , struct sk_buff *skb ,
struct ice_tx_buf *first , struct ice_tx_offload_params *off );

that's the whole signature, verbatim, no edits from me 🫶

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

okay so four things walk into a function:

  • tx_ring — pointer to the Tx ring to send buffer on 💖 like, this is the ring we're posting the buffer to, periodt.
  • skb — pointer to the SKB we're sending 🦋 the packet itself, the main character.
  • first — Tx buffer 🎀 the first Tx buffer in the lineup.
  • off — Tx offload parameters ⭐ all the offload info the function needs.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file lives right here, bestie:

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

and here's the whole friend group — every single one, not skipping a single popstar 🔥:

like, forty whole references and they all ate 💀👑

that's the whole page, fr fr — and before you go, this one's signed off from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, manual page ice_tstamp(9) 🧚💜 lowkey obsessed with how tidy that is. bye bestie, go timestamp something 🌈

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