qed_vf_pf_txq_start(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 qed_vf_pf_txq_start(9)

okay so this one's straight out of the Kernel API Manual, bestie, and it's honestly such a main-character move: your VF just wants to send packets and it can't even start its own TX queue by itself 😭 so it slides a message over to the PF and is like "hey king, start this for me?" 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

qed_vf_pf_txq_start — VF side of things, and it does exactly one iconic job: start the TX queue by sending a message to the PF. periodt 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int qed_vf_pf_txq_start (struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn , struct qed_queue_cid
*p_cid , dma_addr_t pbl_addr , u16 pbl_size , void __iomem **pp_doorbell
);

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • p_hwfn — HW device data. literally the hardware handle, your whole vibe check for the device 💖
  • p_cid — CID. the queue's little identity card 🪪
  • pbl_addr — PBL address. the address of the PBL, as one does ✨
  • pbl_size — PBL Size. how big that PBL is 🌸
  • pp_doorbell — pointer to address to which to write the doorbell too. yes, two p's, it's a pointer-to-a-pointer and it points at the spot where you go ding-dong 🔔 she's giving double-indirection energy
ngl the arg list is short and sweet — but don't sleep on pp_doorbell, that's the one you actually need to keep your eyes on 👀

🔥 RETURN 🔥

Int. that's it, that's the return. an int. slay 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

sibling functions, the whole found family, no cap 🫶

that's the whole page, bestie — go start that queue 💖

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