ixgbe_setup_rx_resources(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_setup_rx_resources — allocate Rx resources (Descriptors)

okay so quick vibe check first: this page lives in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, the kernel-functions girlies 💅), and it's about one very specific job — grabbing the memory a receive ring needs before anything can actually, like, receive. no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ixgbe_setup_rx_resources (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter , struct
ixgbe_ring *rx_ring );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • adapter — pointer to ixgbe_adapter. that's your whole NIC's personality right there, bestie 🫶
  • rx_ring — rx descriptor ring (for a specific queue) to setup. like, one queue's ring — not all of them, pick your fave ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns 0 on success, negative on failure.

that's the whole thing, genuinely 😭 it either sets up the Rx descriptor resources for you and says 0 (slay), or it fails and hands you back something negative (not slay, check your return value fr fr).

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the source lives in the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c — that's the main character file, iykyk 🌈

and here's the full friend group, every single one of them, no skips:

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... — yeah the path got cut off, tragic, but that's literally what it says 🙈 — dated October 2026, and it's filed as ixgbe_setup_rx_resources(9). mwah, go set up some resources 💜

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