mlx5hws_table_get_id(9)

✨ mlx5hws_table_get_id — get the ID of a flow table 💅

okay bestie, so you're deep in the mlx5hws steering world (that's the kernel API manual, section 9, for anyone keeping track 👑) and you've got yourself a flow table and you're like… "what's her ID tho?" — that's literally this function, and it's so simple it's iconic 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mlx5hws_table_get_id — get the ID of the flow table. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u32 mlx5hws_table_get_id(struct mlx5hws_table *tbl);

she takes a table, she gives you back a u32. main character energy, zero drama 💖

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• tbl — the table you want the ID of. that's the one. hand her over 👑

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

the ID of the table. that's the whole payoff, no cap 💀✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

so the actual source of truth lives in the kernel file right here — go look, iykyk:

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

and here's the whole friend group, everyone's invited to the group chat 😭💜

• 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_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_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)

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ngl bestie, this header is the blueprint — if you're lost, start at mlx5hws_is_supported(9) and work your way down the pipeline like the icon you are 💅

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okay and for the sign-off credits moment 🎬 — this page is from the kernel API manual, entry mlx5hws_table_get_id(9), sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellano... and dated October 2026. slay. periodt. go get those table IDs, bestie 🍓🧚💜