ixgbevf_poll(9)

💅 ixgbevf_poll(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so welcome to the ixgbevf_poll(9) page, like, the actual kernel API manual entry for this lil function. grab a boba, we're reading kernel docs together 🧋✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbevf_poll — the NAPI polling calback (yes, "calback" is literally how it's spelled in the original, we don't fix, we respect the typo 💀 it's iconic actually)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbevf_poll (struct napi_struct *napi , int budget );

like, that's the whole signature. no cap. 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• napi — the napi struct, and it's got all our device's info tucked inside it. it's giving "everything bag 👜✨"
• budget — how much work the driver is allowed to do this pass, measured in packets. it's literally the spending limit for this poll, and the driver does not get to overdraw 💳🙈

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so this function? it will clean more than one, or one or more, rings associated with a q_vector. that's the vibe. multiple rings, one q_vector, getting cleaned. slay ✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

first up, the source file itself: Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c — go read it, iykyk 📖💜

and now the whole friend group, fr fr, all of these:

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_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_alloc_q_vectors(9), ixgbevf_free_q_vectors(9), ixgbevf_reset_interrupt_capability(9), ixgbevf_init_interrupt_scheme(9)

still going, don't scroll away bestie 😭:

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)

and the last lil squad, almost there 🫶:

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 there's no OPTIONS, no EXIT STATUS, no ENVIRONMENT, no files, no signals, no bugs section, no author, no copyright, no license line in this one 😭 it's a short page. we read what's there and we loved it anyway 💖

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that's the whole page, bestie — mwah 💋 source/version footer was ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes it's literally cut off like that, it's giving cliffhanger 🎬) dated October 2026, and the page is ixgbevf_poll(9) — periodt. 💅✨🎀