mlx5hws_action_create_tag(9)

💖 mlx5hws_action_create_tag(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual corner of the group chat, where today's main character is mlx5hws_action_create_tag(9) ✨ she's a little function, she's a direct rule TAG action maker, and honestly? she ate.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mlx5hws_action_create_tag — literally just here to Create direct rule TAG action. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct mlx5hws_action * mlx5hws_action_create_tag (struct
mlx5hws_context *ctx , u32 flags );

look at her. iconic signature. no notes. 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ctx — the context in which the new action is gonna be created. like, the world she's being born into, y'know? 🌈
• flags — the action creation flags (that's enum mlx5hws_action_flags, iykyk). 🎀

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👑 RETURN 👑

you get a pointer to mlx5hws_action on success 🥳 and NULL otherwise 😭 (fr fr check for that NULL, bestie).

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

first up, the source of truth — the Kernel file:

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

and now the whole extended friend group, nobody left out, periodt:

• 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_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, that's the whole squad. all 49 of them. no cap. 💜

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ok tiny PSA from your girl: this page lives in the kernel tree at ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellano... and it's dated October 2026, so go off and create those TAG actions responsibly, mwah 💋 slay 🦋✨