idpf_tx_desc_rel(9)

💖 idpf_tx_desc_rel(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's genuinely such a small icon — like, three lines of prose but the SEE ALSO section is giving full friend-group. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

idpf_tx_desc_rel — the little cleanup queen that frees Tx resources per queue 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void idpf_tx_desc_rel (struct idpf_tx_queue *txq );

like, she takes one thing and returns nothing. no notes. 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• txq — the Tx descriptor ring for a specific queue 🎀 ngl this is the ring you're about to yeet the software resources out of, one queue at a time.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Free all transmit software resources. that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨ she's the cleanup bestie — no cap, no extra lore, just resources going bye-bye 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this list is long and honestly iconic for it — every single one of these is a real function, bestie, and they're all part of the same idpf saga 💀💖

• the file itself: Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
• idpf_chk_linearize(9)
• idpf_tx_timeout(9)
• idpf_tx_buf_rel_all(9)
• idpf_compl_desc_rel(9)
• idpf_tx_desc_rel_all(9)
• idpf_tx_buf_alloc_all(9)
• idpf_tx_desc_alloc(9)
• idpf_compl_desc_alloc(9)
• idpf_tx_desc_alloc_all(9)
• idpf_rx_page_rel(9)
• idpf_rx_hdr_buf_rel_all(9)
• idpf_rx_buf_rel_bufq(9)
• idpf_rx_buf_rel_all(9)
• idpf_rx_desc_rel(9)
• idpf_rx_desc_rel_bufq(9)
• idpf_rx_desc_rel_all(9)
• idpf_rx_buf_hw_update(9)
• idpf_rx_hdr_buf_alloc_all(9)
• idpf_post_buf_refill(9)
• idpf_rx_post_buf_desc(9)
• idpf_rx_post_init_bufs(9)
• idpf_rx_buf_alloc_singleq(9)
• idpf_rx_bufs_init_singleq(9)
• idpf_rx_buf_alloc_all(9)
• idpf_rx_bufs_init(9)
• idpf_rx_bufs_init_all(9)
• idpf_rx_desc_alloc(9)
• idpf_bufq_desc_alloc(9)
• idpf_rx_desc_alloc_all(9)
• idpf_vector_to_queue_set(9)
• idpf_qp_switch(9)
• idpf_txq_group_rel(9)
• idpf_rxq_sw_queue_rel(9)
• idpf_rxq_group_rel(9)
• idpf_vport_queue_grp_rel_all(9)
• idpf_vport_queues_rel(9)
• idpf_vport_init_fast_path_txqs(9)
• idpf_vport_init_num_qs(9)
• idpf_vport_calc_num_q_desc(9)
• idpf_vport_calc_total_qs(9)
• idpf_vport_calc_num_q_groups(9)
• idpf_vport_calc_numq_per_grp(9)
• idpf_rxq_set_descids(9)
• idpf_txq_group_alloc(9)
• idpf_rxq_group_alloc(9)
• idpf_vport_queue_grp_alloc_all(9)
• idpf_vport_queues_alloc(9)
• idpf_tx_read_tstamp(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_clean(9)
• idpf_tx_clean_bufs(9)
• idpf_tx_handle_rs_completion(9)
• idpf_tx_clean_complq(9)
• idpf_wait_for_sw_marker_completion(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_build_ctb(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_build_flow_desc(9)
• idpf_txq_has_room(9)
• idpf_tx_maybe_stop_splitq(9)
• idpf_tx_buf_hw_update(9)
• idpf_tx_res_count_required(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_bump_ntu(9)
• idpf_tx_get_free_buf_id(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_pkt_err_unmap(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_map(9)
• idpf_tso(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_get_ctx_desc(9)
• idpf_tx_drop_skb(9)
• idpf_tx_tstamp(9)
• idpf_tx_set_tstamp_desc(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_need_re(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_frame(9)
• idpf_tx_start(9)
• idpf_rx_hash(9)
• idpf_rx_csum(9)
• idpf_rx_splitq_extract_csum_bits(9)
• idpf_rx_rsc(9)
• idpf_rx_hwtstamp(9)
• __idpf_rx_process_skb_fields(9)
• idpf_rx_hsplit_wa(9)
• idpf_rx_splitq_test_staterr(9)
• idpf_rx_splitq_is_eop(9)
• idpf_rx_splitq_clean(9)
• idpf_rx_update_bufq_desc(9)
• idpf_rx_clean_refillq(9)
• idpf_rx_clean_refillq_all(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_clean_queues(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_napi_del_all(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_napi_dis_all(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_rel(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_rel_irq(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_dis_irq_all(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_buildreg_itr(9)
• idpf_update_dim_sample(9)
• idpf_net_dim(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_update_itr_ena_irq(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_req_irq(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_write_itr(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_ena_irq_all(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_dis_dim_all(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_deinit(9)
• idpf_tx_dim_work(9)
• idpf_rx_dim_work(9)
• idpf_init_dim(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_napi_ena_all(9)
• idpf_tx_splitq_clean_all(9)
• idpf_rx_splitq_clean_all(9)
• idpf_vport_splitq_napi_poll(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_map_vector_to_qs(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_init_vec_idx(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_napi_add_all(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_alloc(9)
• idpf_vport_intr_init(9)
• idpf_config_rss(9)
• idpf_fill_dflt_rss_lut(9)
• idpf_init_rss_lut(9)
• idpf_deinit_rss_lut(9)

like… that's the whole extended universe right there 🌈 go read them, iykyk 😭

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🫶 friendly reminder that this page is literally just "free all transmit software resources" — she's short but she's important, okay?

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and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 this little page comes to you from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf, dated October 2026, page idpf_tx_desc_rel(9) — stan her, she frees things 💜✨