ixgbevf_alloc_q_vectors(9)

✨ ixgbevf_alloc_q_vectors(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — yes bestie, the Kernel API Manual, we're doing kernel networking today and honestly? it's giving main character energy. grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's get into it.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbevf_alloc_q_vectors — the function whose whole entire job is allocating memory for interrupt vectors. that's it. that's the gig. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ixgbevf_alloc_q_vectors (struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter );

like, literally just call it with your adapter pointer and it returns an int. no drama, no cap.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adapter — the board private structure you're initializing. that's your baby, that's the thing you're setting up. hand it over and let the function do its thing. 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the tea ☕: we allocate one q_vector per queue interrupt. one queue interrupt → one q_vector. matching set. iconic behavior, honestly.

and if the allocation fails? we return -ENOMEM. yep. that's the error code, that's what you get, -ENOMEM stands for "no memory" and it's the moment where everything just... doesn't work out. 😭 keep that in mind — if allocation fails, the return value is -ENOMEM, periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the friend group 💜 — the kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c, and here's literally everyone else in the group chat:

• ixgbevf_set_ivar(9)
• ixgbevf_tx_timeout(9)
• ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq(9)
• ixgbevf_rx_skb(9)
• ixgbevf_rx_checksum(9)
• ixgbevf_process_skb_fields(9)
• ixgbevf_is_non_eop(9)
• ixgbevf_alloc_rx_buffers(9)
• ixgbevf_cleanup_headers(9)
• ixgbevf_reuse_rx_page(9)
• ixgbevf_add_rx_frag(9)
• ixgbevf_poll(9)
• ixgbevf_write_eitr(9)
• ixgbevf_configure_msix(9)
• ixgbevf_update_itr(9)
• ixgbevf_msix_clean_rings(9)
• ixgbevf_request_msix_irqs(9)
• ixgbevf_request_irq(9)
• ixgbevf_irq_disable(9)
• ixgbevf_irq_enable(9)
• ixgbevf_configure_tx_ring(9)
• ixgbevf_configure_tx(9)
• ixgbevf_init_rss_key(9)
• ixgbevf_configure_rx(9)
• ixgbevf_set_rx_mode(9)
• ixgbevf_set_features(9)
• ixgbevf_clean_rx_ring(9)
• ixgbevf_clean_tx_ring(9)
• ixgbevf_clean_all_rx_rings(9)
• ixgbevf_clean_all_tx_rings(9)
• ixgbevf_set_num_queues(9)
• ixgbevf_set_interrupt_capability(9)
• ixgbevf_alloc_q_vector(9)
• ixgbevf_free_q_vector(9)
• ixgbevf_free_q_vectors(9)
• ixgbevf_reset_interrupt_capability(9)
• ixgbevf_init_interrupt_scheme(9)
• ixgbevf_clear_interrupt_scheme(9)
• ixgbevf_sw_init(9)
• ixgbevf_update_stats(9)
• ixgbevf_service_timer(9)
• ixgbevf_check_hang_subtask(9)
• ixgbevf_watchdog_update_link(9)
• ixgbevf_watchdog_link_is_up(9)
• ixgbevf_watchdog_link_is_down(9)
• ixgbevf_watchdog_subtask(9)
• ixgbevf_service_task(9)
• ixgbevf_free_tx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_free_all_tx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_setup_tx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_setup_all_tx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_setup_rx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_setup_all_rx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_free_rx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_free_all_rx_resources(9)
• ixgbevf_open(9)
• ixgbevf_close_suspend(9)
• ixgbevf_close(9)
• ixgbevf_set_mac(9)
• ixgbevf_change_mtu(9)
• ixgbevf_probe(9)
• ixgbevf_remove(9)
• ixgbevf_io_error_detected(9)
• ixgbevf_io_slot_reset(9)
• ixgbevf_io_resume(9)
• ixgbevf_init_module(9)
• ixgbevf_exit_module(9)
• ixgbevf_get_hw_dev_name(9)

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ngl that SEE ALSO list is a whole friend group and you're about to be in all their group chats. iykyk 💀

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and that's the page!! 🎀✨

this lil cutie came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026 — yes, future vibes only 🦋, and it's filed under ixgbevf_alloc_q_vectors(9) in the Kernel API Manual. slay, go allocate something. 💜