octep_start_xmit(9)

💅 octep_start_xmit — kernel API manual, bestie edition ✨

Okay so bestie, welcome to octep_start_xmit(9) 🦋 — the little function that shoves your packet into the Octeon hardware Tx Queue. Yes, that's the whole vibe. Let's get into it 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

octep_start_xmit — enqueue a packet to the Octeon hardware Tx Queue 📤🔥

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

netdev_tx_t octep_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb , struct net_device
*netdev );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• skb — the packet skbuff pointer 🍓 like, the actual data bundle you're sending out, no cap.
• netdev — the kernel network device 🧚 the netdev that's doing the sending, your main character basically.

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👑 RETURN 👑

• NETDEV_TX_BUSY — comes back when the Tx Queue is full 😭 the queue said "no room, try again later" and honestly same.
• NETDEV_TX_OK — comes back when it's successfully enqueued to the hardware Tx queue 💅 slay, packet delivered to the queue, job done, periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_main.c 👀 that's where the lore lives.

And now the whole friend group, fr fr — every single one of these icons:

• 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_get_stats64(9)
• octep_tx_timeout_task(9)
• octep_tx_timeout(9)
• octep_intr_poll_task(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)

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ngl bestie, if you read all forty-two of those you're genuinely built different 💀🫶

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And that's the page! Sign-off time 🎀 this one came from source ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/... and it's dated October 2026 — so yeah, future vibes only ⭐💜 bye bestie, go enqueue some packets 💅