ipa_gsi_channel_tx_queued(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’… ipa_gsi_channel_tx_queued β€” like, the official Kernel API Manual page, bestie ✨

okay so real talk: this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's all about ipa_gsi_channel_tx_queued β€” the function that's basically the group-chat notification that says "hey, we queued stuff to the hardware, just so u know πŸ‘€".


🌸 NAME 🌸

ipa_gsi_channel_tx_queued β€” GSI queued to hardware notification πŸ¦‹


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ipa_gsi_channel_tx_queued (struct gsi *gsi , u32 channel_id , u32
       count , u32 byte_count );

like, it returns void, it takes four things, that's the whole vibe πŸ’…


πŸŽ€ ARGUMENTS πŸŽ€

  • gsi β€” the GSI pointer, i.e. ur actual handle to the GSI layer 🫢
  • channel_id β€” the channel number, slay, which channel we're talkin about
  • count β€” how many transactions got queued, lowkey important
  • byte_count β€” the number of bytes to transfer that those transactions represent πŸ“¦

πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

So this gets called from the GSI layer, right? And its whole job is to notify the IPA layer that some number of transactions have been queued to hardware for execution. That's it. That's the tea β˜•οΈ. No cap, that's the entire function's personality β€” it's the "hey bestie, work's been handed off to the hardware" ping πŸ”₯


πŸ‘‘ SEE ALSO πŸ‘‘

like go read those too, they're all in the same friend group iykyk πŸ’œ


and that's the whole page, periodt 🌈 this came from the kernel source at ./drivers/net/ipa, dated October 2026, and yes the header up top was literally ipa_gsi_channel_tx_queued(9) in the Kernel API Manual β€” iconic, no notes πŸ’…βœ¨πŸŽ€

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from