ixgbevf_service_task(9)

💅 ixgbevf_service_task(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's about ixgbevf_service_task — yes that's a mouthful, yes it's iconic, no we're not pronouncing it out loud 💀

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✨ NAME ✨

ixgbevf_service_task — the girlypop that manages and runs subtasks 👑 like she's the group chat admin of the kernel, fr fr.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ixgbevf_service_task (struct work_struct *work );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. returns nothing (void), takes one thing. periodt 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• work — pointer to work_struct containing our data 🫶 like, it's a struct work_struct * and inside it lives our stuff. that's the whole job description bestie, no cap.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the manpage just. keeps. going. 😭 literally the whole ixgbevf family tree is here — every sibling, cousin, and distant relative. go say hi to all of them (and yeah, they're all real kernel file references, iykyk):

first up, the actual source, nestled in the kernel:

• the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c — the mothership 🏠

and then the entire extended family, every single one, no skips:

• 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_alloc_q_vectors(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_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)

like… that's the whole roster. she knows everyone. main character energy for real 🧚✨

lowkey if you're looking something up and it's not in that list, it's probably not in this manpage either, so don't come for me 🙈

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and that's the page bestie!! 💖 shoutout to the source ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes it's truncated in the original, that's not me being lazy, that's just how it is 😭) and to the October 2026 date stamp, and to the ixgbevf_service_task(9) header/footer combo holding it all together. slay, see you in the next manpage 🍓💜