qla_req_ring_advance(9)

qla_req_ring_advance(9) 💖

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — this page is all about qla_req_ring_advance(9), and it is lowkey a one-job icon. no cap, it just advances the request-ring producer pointer and then dips. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

qla_req_ring_advance — advance request-ring producer pointer. that's the whole function, and honestly? she ate. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's the signature, exactly as it appears, no edits:

void qla_req_ring_advance (struct qla_hw_data *ha , struct req_que *req
);

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ha — HBA pointer. that's your HBA pointer, the hardware bestie in question. 🫶
• req — request queue. the request queue you're advancing, periodt.

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

It mirrors qla_rsp_ring_advance — same energy, request-ring edition. 🌸

⚠️ but listen: it does NOT publish the new producer index to firmware. if you need that, callers that need to do so should follow with a wrt_reg_dword or qla_83xx_start_iocbs.

so yeah, it's giving "I did my part, now you do yours" energy. do not expect this function to tell firmware about the shiny new producer index — that is not her job. 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_inline.h
• qla24xx_calc_iocbs(9)
• qla29xx_calc_iocbs(9)
• qla_req_entry_size(9)
• qla_rsp_entry_size(9)
• qla_sts_cont_data_size(9)
• qla_logio_set_vp_index(9)
• qla_rsp_ring_advance(9)
• qla_req_ring_slot(9)
• qla_rsp_ring_rewind_to(9)

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later bestie 🫶 — source/version: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx · date: October 2026 · qla_req_ring_advance(9) 💖