mlx5_esw_put(9)

💅 mlx5_esw_put(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for mlx5_esw_put. yes it's a whole manual page for one function and honestly? iconic of it. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

mlx5_esw_put — Decrease esw user count. that's the whole vibe. it's the "k, i'm done now, one less of me" of the ethernet switch world 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void mlx5_esw_put (struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev );

look at her. void return, so she's not bringing anything back for you — no return value, no drama, no receipts. she just decrements and goes home 🦋

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• mdev — mlx5 core device. yeah. that's it. that's the argument. the device, the mlx5 core one. she needs it to know whose user count she's out here decreasing. no cap 💖

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the girlies in the same friend group (iykyk):

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c — like, literally go read the source bestie, she's right there
• mlx5_esw_query_functions(9)
• mlx5_eswitch_enable_locked(9)
• mlx5_eswitch_enable(9)
• mlx5_esw_hold(9)
• mlx5_esw_release(9)
• mlx5_esw_get(9)
• mlx5_esw_try_lock(9)
• mlx5_esw_unlock(9)
• mlx5_eswitch_get_total_vports(9)
• mlx5_eswitch_get_core_dev(9)

like, mlx5_esw_get(9) is literally her opposite — the hold/put, get/release situation is giving balanced energy. main character and her reflection fr fr 🌈

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lowkey reminder: this page is short because the function is short. don't go inventing extra behaviour for her, she's just here to decrease the user count 💀

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signed, sealed, delivered by the source ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellano... — version vibe check dated October 2026, and yeah, she's still mlx5_esw_put(9) down at the bottom too 😭💜 slay, go decrement something responsibly 🧚