ixgbevf_ipsec_tx(9)

✨ ixgbevf_ipsec_tx — kernel API manual, bestie edition ✨

Okay so this is a page from the kernel API manual (like, the ixgbevf_ipsec_tx(9) one, iykyk) and honestly? It's a little cutie. Short, sweet, does exactly one thing. Let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbevf_ipsec_tx — setup Tx flags for IPsec offload

Literally that's the whole vibe: it sets up the Tx flags so your IPsec offload can do its thing. No cap. 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int ixgbevf_ipsec_tx (struct ixgbevf_ring *tx_ring , struct
ixgbevf_tx_buffer *first , struct ixgbevf_ipsec_tx_data *itd );

It returns an int, and it takes three arguments — all structs, all pointers, all iconic. Swipe right on the next section for the deets 👇

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• tx_ring — the outgoing context. That's the ring your packets are yeeting themselves out of. 🏃‍♀️💨
• first — the current data packet. The star of the show, the main character, the one you're working with right now. ⭐
• itd — the ipsec Tx data, saved here for later use in building the context descriptor. So like, it's the info you're stashing now so future-you can assemble the descriptor and slay. 💾

Fr fr: nothing extra is going on here. Three args in, an int out, go build that descriptor later. 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

The kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c — that's the whole neighbourhood, and here's everyone else on the block:

• ixgbevf_ipsec_set_pf_sa(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_del_pf_sa(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_restore(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_find_empty_idx(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_find_rx_state(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_parse_proto_keys(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_add_sa(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_del_sa(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_rx(9)
• ixgbevf_init_ipsec_offload(9)
• ixgbevf_stop_ipsec_offload(9)

Like a whole friend group of IPsec functions. Go read them all, bestie, they're all worth it 📚✨

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And that's the page!! 💜 This one's from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026 — so like, future-coded of it. Byeeee, go set up those Tx flags 🎀💅