page_pool_get_stats(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 page_pool_get_stats(9) 💖

okay so bestie, you're reading the Kernel API Manual page for page_pool_get_stats and honestly? iconic of you. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

page_pool_get_stats — fetch page pool stats 💅 like, literally go get the stats, that's the whole job

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void page_pool_get_stats (const struct page_pool *pool , struct
page_pool_stats *stats );

no cap, that's the signature. two args, one void return, we move 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • pool — the pool from which the page was allocated ✨ this is your main character right here
  • stats — a struct page_pool_stats to fill in 💖 you hand it over empty and it comes back full, it's giving makeover

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

first things first, bestie, and I need you to hear me: this is a deprecated driver API for querying stats 😭 I know. I know. but listen — page pool stats can be queried via netdev Netlink now, so that's the vibe going forward. periodt.

so what does this actually do? it retrieves statistics about the page_pool ⭐

heads up babes 💀 this API is only available if the kernel has been configured with CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS=y. so do your vibe check on that config first, okay?

here's the flow, and it's honestly so simple: a pointer to a caller allocated struct page_pool_stats structure is passed to this API, and it gets filled in 🎀 that's it. that's the whole thing.

and then? the caller can report those stats to the user 🔥 perhaps via ethtool, debugfs, etc. — like, you do you, the delivery mechanism is your choice, slay.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too, iykyk 💅

and that's the page! mwah 💋 this came from ./net/core, dated October 2026 — yes, from the future, we're built different over here 🔥👑✨

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