ixgbevf_clean_rx_ring(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 ixgbevf_clean_rx_ring(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ixgbevf_clean_rx_ring(9) — yes the title is a mouthful, no we are not pronouncing it out loud 💅

this is the little function that handles the "bye bye buffers" moment for one single Rx queue. it's giving cleanup era. it's giving closing shift energy. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ixgbevf_clean_rx_ring — Free Rx Buffers per Queue 🧹💨

like, per queue. one queue. not all of them. we'll get to the all-of-them ones down in SEE ALSO, don't worry your pretty head 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ixgbevf_clean_rx_ring (struct ixgbevf_ring *rx_ring );

that's it. that's the whole call. one argument, void return, no notes 😌

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • rx_ring — ring to free buffers from. literally the ring you want to clear out, bestie. hand it over and the buffers get freed. that's the vibe 🌈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

first up, the source file this whole thing lives in, no cap:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c

and then... the extended family 😭 the whole group chat, fr fr. every single one of these, exactly as listed:

look at that list. that's a whole friend group. that's a squad 👑 if you're looking for the "free every Rx ring at once" energy instead of just one, you already know where to look 😉

💀 real talk though: nothing on this page tells you what happens if you pass a ring that's already been cleaned, or a bogus pointer. the page doesn't say. so don't go assuming, bestie. don't invent behaviour, that's not the move 🙈

kisses and clean ring buffers, mwah 💋 — this little page came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (source/version), dated October 2026, and yes it's still called ixgbevf_clean_rx_ring(9). slay 🌟

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