libeth_rx_recycle_slow(9)

✨ libeth_rx_recycle_slow(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for libeth_rx_recycle_slow(9) 🫶 this one is short and sweet, and it's literally all about recycling libeth netmem. no cap, the _slow is right there in the name 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

libeth_rx_recycle_slow — recycle libeth netmem 🦋

⚡ SYNOPSIS ⚡

void __cold libeth_rx_recycle_slow (netmem_ref netmem );

the way that __cold is just sitting there in the signature? iconic. and yes, it returns void — that's right there in the signature, bestie ✨

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• netmem — network memory to recycle. that's the argument, that's the whole assignment: this is the network memory you're recycling ♻️

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Use this on exceptions or rare cases that do not require fast inline recycling. like, it's not the fast inline recycling moment; it's the exception/rare-case moment, periodt. the function is __cold, and it's here for the non-fast-inline-recycling situations described above — no extra lore, that's the description 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/libeth/rx.c 🧚
• libeth_rx_hw_len_mtu(9)
• libeth_rx_hw_len_truesize(9)
• libeth_rx_page_pool_params(9)
• libeth_rx_page_pool_params_zc(9)
• libeth_rx_fq_create(9)
• libeth_rx_fq_destroy(9)
• libeth_rx_pt_gen_hash_type(9)

these are the cross-reference besties, iykyk 🌈

mwah 💋 — source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/l... · date: October 2026 · page: libeth_rx_recycle_slow(9)