mlx5hws_acti...e_dest_table(9)

💅 mlx5hws_acti...e_dest_table(9) — the Kernel API Manual page you didn't know you needed

okay so bestie, welcome to section 9 of the Kernel API Manual 🌸 this one is literally about mlx5hws_action_create_dest_table — and yes the header is truncated because even man pages get tired, the full name is below, iykyk.

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✨ NAME ✨

mlx5hws_action_create_dest_table — creates a direct rule goto table action. That's the whole gig. She's a destination-table action and she knows it 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct mlx5hws_action * mlx5hws_action_create_dest_table (struct
mlx5hws_context *ctx , struct mlx5hws_table *tbl , u32 flags );

like, she takes three things and gives you back an action pointer. periodt.

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ctx — the context where your shiny new action is gonna be born ✨ literally the place it gets created.
• tbl — the destination table. the table she's gonna goto. the whole point, honestly.
• flags — action creation flags, typed as enum mlx5hws_action_flags. that's the type, keep it exact bestie 🙈

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👑 RETURN 👑

pointer to mlx5hws_action on success, NULL otherwise. that's it. that's the vibe check 😭

no cap: if you get NULL back, something went sideways — that's your cue to go check stuff.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is iconic and also kind of a lot, so buckle up 🫶

The kernel file (main character energy):

• Kernel file
• ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/mlx5hws.h

The whole friend group, in order, fr fr:

• 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_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_counter(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… she references everyone. queen behavior 👑

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💖

and a lil cute sign-off: this absolute banger came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellano... (yes it's cut off, the manpage gremlins got it) in October 2026, and it's mlx5hws_acti...e_dest_table(9) all over again at the bottom — full circle, we love to see it 🎀✨