netif_start_subqueue(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to netif_start_subqueue(9) from the Kernel API Manual — and the NAME section is literally allow sending packets on subqueue 💅✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void netif_start_subqueue (struct net_device *dev , u16 queue_index );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — network device. That’s the device, bestie 🫶
• queue_index — sub queue index. The index of the sub queue, periodt 💅

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Start individual transmit queue of a device with multiple transmit queues. That’s the whole vibe: one individual transmit queue gets started, and the device is one with multiple transmit queues. Iconic behavior, no cap. 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay this is the cross-ref group chat, and every single one is here — buckle up 🫶

• Kernel file: ./include/linux/netdevice.h
• struct gro_node(9)
• napi_is_scheduled(9)
• napi_schedule(9)
• napi_schedule_irqoff(9)
• napi_complete_done(9)
• napi_synchronize(9)
• napi_if_scheduled_mark_missed(9)
• enum netdev_priv_flags(9)
• struct net_device(9)
• netdev_priv(9)
• netdev_from_priv(9)
• netif_napi_add(9)
• netif_napi_add_config(9)
• netif_napi_add_tx(9)
• __netif_napi_del(9)
• netif_napi_del(9)
• netif_start_queue(9)
• netif_wake_queue(9)
• netif_stop_queue(9)
• netif_queue_stopped(9)
• netdev_queue_set_dql_min_limit(9)
• netdev_txq_bql_enqueue_prefetchw(9)
• netdev_txq_bql_complete_prefetchw(9)
• netdev_tx_sent_queue(9)
• netdev_sent_queue(9)
• netdev_tx_completed_queue(9)
• netdev_completed_queue(9)
• netdev_tx_reset_subqueue(9)
• netdev_reset_queue(9)
• netdev_cap_txqueue(9)
• netif_running(9)
• netif_stop_subqueue(9)
• __netif_subqueue_stopped(9)
• netif_subqueue_stopped(9)
• netif_wake_subqueue(9)
• netif_attr_test_mask(9)
• netif_attr_test_online(9)
• netif_attrmask_next(9)
• netif_attrmask_next_and(9)
• netif_is_multiqueue(9)
• dev_hold(9)
• dev_put(9)
• linkwatch_sync_dev(9)
• netif_carrier_ok(9)
• netif_dormant_on(9)
• netif_dormant_off(9)
• netif_dormant(9)
• netif_testing_on(9)
• netif_testing_off(9)
• netif_testing(9)
• netif_oper_up(9)
• netif_device_present(9)
• netif_tx_lock(9)
• __dev_uc_sync(9)
• __dev_uc_unsync(9)
• __dev_mc_sync(9)
• __dev_mc_unsync(9)

source/version: ./include/linux · date: October 2026 — mwah, bestie 💖🎀