ice_vc_del_fdir_fltr_post(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_vc_del_fdir_fltr_post — the "we're done here bestie" post-processing step for FDIR deletes

okay so real talk: this page lives in the Kernel API Manual (yes, that's the manual name, she's official 💖), and it's all about one little function in the Intel ice driver that comes in clutch after someone's tried to delete a flow director filter. Think of her as the cleanup crew in the group chat — she either confirms it slayed or quietly undoes the mess. No cap.

The NAME line on the original is literally just the function name with nothing after it — she's mysterious like that. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_vc_del_fdir_fltr_post (struct ice_vf *vf , struct
       ice_vf_fdir_ctx *ctx , enum virtchnl_fdir_prgm_status status , bool
       success );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • vf — pointer to the VF structure. Like, the whole virtual function's little world in one pointer.
  • ctx — FDIR context info for post processing. This is the receipts folder 📁 for whatever just went down.
  • status — the virtchnl FDIR program status. Basically the vibes check on how the programming went.
  • success — true implies success, false implies failure. Binary queen behavior, we respect it. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea, bestie: this is the post process for the flow director del command — literally that's her whole job. She's the after-party organizer for a delete.

If success is true, then she does the post process and sends back a success msg by virtchnl. Mission accomplished, confetti, everyone claps. ✨

Otherwise — and this is the iconic part — she does context reversion and sends back a failure msg by virtchnl. So she rewinds the whole thing like nothing ever happened and tells the other side "yeah no that didn't work." It's giving damage control, it's giving accountability, we love to see it. 💅

no cap on the failure path — the context reversion is real and she WILL un-do the state before sending that sad little failure msg. 🙈

🔥 RETURN 🔥

0 on success, and other on error. That's it, that's the whole mood — zero means slay, anything else means something went sideways. 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Bestie she knows everyone. The whole kernel file crew:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/virt/fdir.c

🌸 and that's the whole page, babe 🌸 — sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i..., dated October 2026, and she's the ice_vc_del_fdir_fltr_post(9) girlie through and through. mwah 💋🦋

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