octep_vf_tx_timeout_task(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ octep_vf_tx_timeout_task — the Kernel API Manual moment 💅

Okay bestie, so this one is a kernel API manual page (section 9, the fun one for kernel internals), and the star of the show is octep_vf_tx_timeout_task 🫶 — a work queue task whose whole job is handling a Tx queue timeout. Iconic little cleanup crew energy.

🌸 NAME 🌸

octep_vf_tx_timeout_task — work queue task to Handle Tx queue timeout ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void octep_vf_tx_timeout_task (struct work_struct *work );

That's it, that's the whole signature — returns void, takes one struct work_struct * named work. Periodt 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • work — pointer to Tx queue timeout work_struct 👑 like, this is the work item that carries the timeout situation, so the task knows what it's working with.

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So here's the vibe: this thing stops and starts the device so that it frees up all queue resources and restarts the queues. And the hope — the dream, even — is that doing all that potentially clears a Tx queue timeout condition 🔥

literally stop, free everything, restart, and see if the timeout goes away. main character recovery arc tbh 🧚

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file:

./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep_vf/octep_vf_main.c

And the whole friend group 👯‍♀️ — every single one of these, no skips, no cap:

💖 tiny heads-up bestie: the source/version line on the original got cut off with ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell... so I'm keeping it exactly as it appeared — no inventing the full path, iykyk.

and that's the page!! 🍓 sign-off time: this beauty comes from the Kernel API Manual, with the source path shown as ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell... and a date of October 2026, filed under octep_vf_tx_timeout_task(9) 💜 slay, go handle those timeouts bestie ⭐

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