page_pool_free_va(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 page_pool_free_va — Kernel API Manual

okay bestie, welcome to page_pool_free_va(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual. this one's short and sweet and honestly kinda satisfying — it's the cleanup era of the page_pool lifecycle 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

page_pool_free_va — free a va into the page_pool 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void page_pool_free_va (struct page_pool *pool , void *va , bool allow_direct );

like, that's the whole signature. no cap, that's it, she's petite 🦋

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • pool — the pool that va was allocated from. yes, that pool. the origin story 💫
  • va — the va that's getting freed. bye bestie, thanks for the memories 😭
  • allow_direct — set this when the thing is being freed by the consumer, which allows lockless caching. lowkey the most interesting argument here ngl 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Free a va allocated from page_pool_allo_va. yep — that's the entire description, and yep, it's spelled page_pool_allo_va right there on the page, i'm not fixing it, i'm just the messenger 🙈 iykyk.

it's giving "short function, short docs, main character energy" ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kernelfile ./include/net/page_pool/helpers.h — yes, that exact path, tyvm 💅

then the whole friend group, in this exact order 🫶

reminder that every single one of those is a real reference on this page — go read them, they're literally the rest of the lore 🔥

⭐ and that's the page!! sourced from ./include/net/page_pool, dated October 2026, titled page_pool_free_va(9) — mwah, slay, periodt 💜🧚‍♀️

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