irdma_hw_stats_start_timer(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 irdma_hw_stats_start_timer — Kernel API Manual (bestie edition) ✨

okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual today and the function on the menu is irdma_hw_stats_start_timer(9). she's short, she's sweet, she starts a timer, she leaves. main character energy but make it void 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

irdma_hw_stats_start_timer — start the periodic stats timer 💖

like literally that's the whole job. periodic. stats. timer. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void irdma_hw_stats_start_timer (struct irdma_sc_vsi *vsi );

she takes exactly one thing and returns absolutely nothing (void, my beloved) 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • vsi — a pointer to the vsi structure. that's the whole arg list bestie, one (1) struct pointer, and she ate 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the source file this whole situation lives in: ./drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/utils.c — that's the kernel file, that's where the girlies are 🧚

and now the full squad, literally every single one, i did not skip a single fave:

iykyk 😭 that's a lot of friends and she knows every one of them by name.

lowkey note: this page only tells you how to start the timer — irdma_hw_stats_stop_timer(9) is right there in the list if you need the other half of the story 🙈

that's the whole page bestie, no filler, no yapping 🌈 this one ships out of ./drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma, dated October 2026, and yes the name at the bottom is still irdma_hw_stats_start_timer(9) — periodt 💖✨

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