octep_oq_process_rx(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 octep_oq_process_rx(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie 🎀

okay so picture this: you're deep in the octep_oq_process_rx(9) page of the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's giving main character energy for the receive path. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

octep_oq_process_rx — literally just processing the Rx queue, that's the whole vibe 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int octep_oq_process_rx (struct octep_oq *oq , int budget );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • oq — the Octeon Rx queue data structure bestie, she's holding all the queue tea 🫖
  • budget — the max number of packets that can be processed in one single invocation. like, we're not doing infinite loops here, we have boundaries 💅

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

so what she does is: check for newly received packets and process them. that's it, that's the whole job 👑

and the way she keeps checking for new packets? obsessed. she loops until either the budget is fully used up OR no new packets show up. no cap, she's disciplined about it 🔥

🎀 RETURN 🎀

the number of packets processed. that's the number she's serving you, periodt 💅✨

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the kernel file is right here, go look, iykyk: ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c

and the whole friend group, all iconic, all linked:

lowkey a whole squad of functions, and every single one of them eats 💀🔥

and that's the page bestie!! 🫶 this little love letter lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell... (yes the path got shortened, don't come for me 😭) and it's dated October 2026, still out here being iconic 🌈⭐💜

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