nfp_net_rx_ring_free(9)

💅 nfp_net_rx_ring_free — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🎀

okay so real talk, this one's a shortie but she's important. We're in nfp_net_rx_ring_free(9) territory, aka the Netronome NFP driver's little cleanup era. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

nfp_net_rx_ring_free — the function that frees all the resources that got allocated to a RX ring. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void nfp_net_rx_ring_free (struct nfp_net_rx_ring *rx_ring );

no cap, she returns void — nothing comes back, she just does her thing and dips. 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• rx_ring — the RX ring you want to free. that's the one, hand her over. 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_dp.c — she lives here, this is her address 🏡
• nfp_net_rx_alloc_one(9)
• nfp_net_tx_ring_init(9)
• nfp_net_rx_ring_init(9)
• nfp_net_rx_ring_reset(9)
• nfp_net_rx_ring_bufs_free(9)
• nfp_net_rx_ring_bufs_alloc(9)
• nfp_net_rx_ring_alloc(9)

like, if you're here you probably also need at least one of those. iykyk 🌈

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💀 reminder that this is the free one, not the alloc one. don't get it twisted, bestie. free the ring, don't free it twice, mwah 😭

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and that's the page!! came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/netrono... (the path was literally giving truncated on the original, not me 🙈) and she's dated October 2026 — iconic of her honestly. go free those rings, queen 👑💖