init_rx_pools(9)

✨ NAME ✨

init_rx_pools — Initialize the set of receiver pools in the adapter. 💅✨

Okay bestie, this is init_rx_pools(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s giving “set up the receiver pools” energy. 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int init_rx_pools (struct net_device *netdev );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• netdev — net device associated with the vnic interface. 🛰️

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Initialize the set of receiver pools in the ibmvnic adapter associated with the net_device netdev. ✨

If possible, reuse the existing rx pools — iconic, no notes. 💖 Otherwise, free any existing pools and allocate a new set of pools before initializing them. That’s the whole vibe: reuse if you can, rebuild if you must. 🔥

⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 on success and negative value on error. 😭 Success is 0, errors are negative — periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c 📁

Go read these besties too, fr fr:

• ibmvnic_wait_for_completion(9)
• reuse_ltb(9)
• alloc_long_term_buff(9)
• free_ltb_set(9)
• alloc_ltb_set(9)
• map_rxpool_buf_to_ltb(9)
• map_txpool_buf_to_ltb(9)
• release_rx_pools(9)
• reuse_rx_pools(9)
• release_tx_pools(9)
• reuse_tx_pools(9)
• init_tx_pools(9)
• get_hdr_lens(9)
• create_hdr_descs(9)
• build_hdr_descs_arr(9)
• do_passive_init(9)

mwah 💋 this page is from the Kernel API Manual, source ./drivers/net/ethernet/ibm, dated October 2026 — init_rx_pools(9) out. 🫶🎀