mlx5_eswitc...total_vports(9)

💅 mlx5_eswitch_get_total_vports — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so real talk, this is from the Kernel API Manual and it's genuinely one of the shortest little pages ever and honestly? iconic for that. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mlx5_eswitch_get_total_vports — literally just Get total vports of the eswitch. that's the whole vibe check, no cap 🦋

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

u16 mlx5_eswitch_get_total_vports (const struct mlx5_core_dev *dev );

that's it. that's the whole call. she's small, she's cute, she returns a u16 💖

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — Pointer to core device. that's your const struct mlx5_core_dev *, so like, don't go mutating her, she's const for a reason bestie 🙈

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

mlx5_eswitch_get_total_vports returns the total number of eswitch vports. yes. that's the entire description. not me being obsessed with a function whose whole personality is "counts the vports" 😭 honestly? respect. she knows her purpose. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c — like, that's where the actual sauce lives, iykyk
• 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_put(9)
• mlx5_esw_try_lock(9)
• mlx5_esw_unlock(9)
• mlx5_eswitch_get_core_dev(9)

all the eswitch besties in one group chat 🫶 go read them too, they ate 💅

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ngl there's no exit status, no warnings, no bugs section, no environment variables here — she's a single-purpose function and she's thriving 🌈

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🌸✨ and that's the page!! brought to you from ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellano... (October 2026), filed under mlx5_eswitc...total_vports(9) — stay hydrated, read your manpages, and remember: const correctness is self care 💖🎀🦋