ixgbe_set_rss_queues(9)

✨ ixgbe_set_rss_queues(9) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and it's literally all about ixgbe_set_rss_queues — the function that sets up your queues for RSS. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool ixgbe_set_rss_queues (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adapter — the board private structure you're gonna initialize. it's giving "main character" energy tbh, everything runs through it. 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this is our "base" multiqueue mode, no cap. RSS (that's Receive Side Scaling for the uninitiated, iykyk) will try to allocate one Rx queue per CPU — and if they're available, one Tx queue per CPU too. literally one for every CPU, slay. ✨🔥

it's the foundation, the blueprint, the moment before everything else happens. iconic behavior only. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_lib.c
• ixgbe_cache_ring_dcb_sriov(9)
• ixgbe_cache_ring_dcb(9)
• ixgbe_cache_ring_sriov(9)
• ixgbe_cache_ring_rss(9)
• ixgbe_cache_ring_register(9)
• ixgbe_set_dcb_sriov_queues(9)
• ixgbe_set_sriov_queues(9)
• ixgbe_set_num_queues(9)
• ixgbe_acquire_msix_vectors(9)
• ixgbe_alloc_q_vector(9)
• ixgbe_free_q_vector(9)
• ixgbe_alloc_q_vectors(9)
• ixgbe_free_q_vectors(9)
• ixgbe_set_interrupt_capability(9)
• ixgbe_init_interrupt_scheme(9)
• ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme(9)

that's the whole ixgbe squad right there fr fr 🧚💜

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bestie if you're reading this at 3am debugging your NIC driver, drink some water and go to bed after. the queues will still be there tomorrow. 💀🌸

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written with love, from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... — version October 2026, page ixgbe_set_rss_queues(9) — periodt. 👑💖