octep_intr_poll_task(9)

💅 octep_intr_poll_task — bestie's guide to the kernel API

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and it's about one (1) little work queue task. yes it's niche. yes it's iconic. let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

octep_intr_poll_task — literally the work queue task that processes non-ioq interrupts. that's it, that's the job 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void octep_intr_poll_task (struct work_struct *work );

no cap, that's the whole signature. void return, one pointer in, vibes out ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• work — pointer to mbox work_struct. yes bestie, it's a work struct pointer, and it's the mailbox-flavored one 🧚

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does this thing actually do? it processes non-ioq interrupts — which is the fancy way of saying it handles the control mailbox and the pfvf mailbox. that's the whole plot 🍓

like, the ioq interrupts get their own whole situation, and this task is the other lane. main character energy for the mailbox interrupts fr fr 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

so many siblings, omg, this function has a whole extended family 😭 go read about all of them:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_main.c
• octep_alloc_ioq_vectors(9), octep_free_ioq_vectors(9)
• octep_enable_msix_range(9), octep_disable_msix(9)
• octep_mbox_intr_handler(9), octep_oei_intr_handler(9)
• octep_ire_intr_handler(9), octep_ore_intr_handler(9)
• octep_vfire_intr_handler(9), octep_vfore_intr_handler(9)
• octep_dma_intr_handler(9), octep_dma_vf_intr_handler(9)
• octep_pp_vf_intr_handler(9), octep_misc_intr_handler(9)
• octep_rsvd_intr_handler(9), octep_ioq_intr_handler(9)
• octep_request_irqs(9), octep_free_irqs(9), octep_setup_irqs(9)
• octep_clean_irqs(9), octep_update_pkt(9), octep_enable_ioq_irq(9)
• octep_napi_poll(9), octep_napi_add(9), octep_napi_delete(9)
• octep_napi_enable(9), octep_napi_disable(9), octep_open(9)
• octep_stop(9), octep_iq_full_check(9), octep_start_xmit(9)
• octep_get_stats64(9), octep_tx_timeout_task(9), octep_tx_timeout(9)
• octep_hb_timeout_task(9), octep_ctrl_mbox_task(9)
• octep_device_setup(9), octep_device_cleanup(9), octep_probe(9)
• octep_remove(9), octep_init_module(9), octep_exit_module(9)

lowkey that's a lot of cross-references but every single one is here, i checked, we don't skip units in this house 💀

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okay that's the whole page bestie, ily, go read some kernel source 🌈💜

— signed off with source ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell... and dated October 2026, from your fave manual octep_intr_poll_task(9) 🎀✨