mlx5hws_act...eate_counter(9)

💅 mlx5hws_act...eate_counter(9)

okay so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, bestie — yes, that Kernel API Manual. it's giving "low-level networking but make it cute" 🎀 and we're about to read it together, no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

mlx5hws_action_create_counter — literally just creating a direct rule counter action. that's the whole vibe. 💫

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct mlx5hws_action * mlx5hws_action_create_counter (struct
mlx5hws_context *ctx , u32 obj_id , u32 flags );

look at her. icon. 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• ctx — the context where your brand-new action is gonna live, like it's moving into the group chat 🫶
• obj_id — the direct rule counter object ID. that's her government name, fr fr.
• flags — the action creation flags (it's a enum mlx5hws_action_flags, so like… the vibe settings ⭐)

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👑 RETURN 👑

on success you get back a pointer to mlx5hws_action — main character energy, we're obsessed. 💖 otherwise you get NULL and honestly? 😭 that's a no from her.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

first up, the receipts — go read the Kernel file bestie, it's right here: ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/mlx5hws.h 📁

and then the whole extended friend group, in order, not a single one skipped because we don't do that here:

• mlx5hws_is_supported(9), mlx5hws_context_open(9), mlx5hws_context_close(9), mlx5hws_context_set_peer(9)
• mlx5hws_table_create(9), mlx5hws_table_destroy(9), mlx5hws_table_get_id(9), mlx5hws_table_set_default_miss(9)
• mlx5hws_match_template_create(9), mlx5hws_match_template_destroy(9), mlx5hws_action_template_create(9), mlx5hws_action_template_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_matcher_create(9), mlx5hws_matcher_destroy(9), mlx5hws_matcher_attach_at(9), mlx5hws_matcher_resize_set_target(9), mlx5hws_matcher_resize_rule_move(9)
• mlx5hws_rule_create(9), mlx5hws_rule_destroy(9), mlx5hws_rule_action_update(9)
• mlx5hws_action_get_type(9), mlx5hws_action_get_dev(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_dest_drop(9), mlx5hws_action_create_default_miss(9), mlx5hws_action_create_dest_table(9), mlx5hws_action_create_dest_table_num(9), mlx5hws_action_create_dest_match_range(9), mlx5hws_action_create_flow_sampler(9), mlx5hws_action_create_dest_vport(9), mlx5hws_action_create_tag(9), mlx5hws_action_create_reformat(9), mlx5hws_action_create_modify_header(9), mlx5hws_action_create_aso_meter(9), mlx5hws_action_create_pop_vlan(9), mlx5hws_action_create_push_vlan(9), mlx5hws_action_create_dest_array(9), mlx5hws_action_create_insert_header(9), mlx5hws_action_create_remove_header(9), mlx5hws_action_create_last(9), mlx5hws_action_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_send_queue_poll(9), mlx5hws_send_queue_action(9), mlx5hws_debug_dump(9)
• mlx5hws_bwc_matcher_create(9), mlx5hws_bwc_matcher_destroy(9), mlx5hws_bwc_rule_create(9), mlx5hws_bwc_rule_destroy(9), mlx5hws_bwc_rule_action_update(9)

like, that's a lot of reading but you're gonna slay it, i believe in you 🧚💜

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ngl there's no big scary warning on this one — just remember NULL means it didn't work out, and check the flags enum before you go guessing at behaviour 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓✨ mwah 💋

source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellano... — and it's dated October 2026, so yes she's from the future, we stan a time traveler 🦋💫