restart_offloadq(9)

💅 restart_offloadq — restart a suspended offload queue 💅

okay so we're deep in the Kernel API Manual rn and today's main character is restart_offloadq. she's small, she's focused, she has exactly one job and she does it flawlessly, no cap. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

restart_offloadq — restart a suspended offload queue. literally that. that's the whole brand 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void restart_offloadq (struct work_struct *w );

yes bestie that space before the closing paren is right there in the original, so it's right here too. we don't "fix" things, we reproduce them faithfully 🎀

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• w — pointer to the work associated with this handler 🫶 like, the struct work_struct that's carrying this whole operation on its back.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so imagine a Tx offload queue that got suspended. she's napping 😴, she's off duty, and nothing is going out. restart_offloadq is the bestie who shows up, shakes her awake, and goes "girl. transmission. now." — it resumes transmission on a suspended Tx offload queue. that's the entire plot, no sequel, no plot twist, and honestly the efficiency is iconic 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

this list is long and we are not skipping a single one of them, because every entry is somebody's hyperlinked bestie and we respect the whole friend group. all of these live in the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/sge.c:

• refill_rspq(9)
• need_skb_unmap(9)
• unmap_skb(9)
• free_tx_desc(9)
• reclaim_completed_tx(9)
• should_restart_tx(9)
• free_rx_bufs(9)
• add_one_rx_buf(9)
• refill_fl(9)
• recycle_rx_buf(9)
• alloc_ring(9)
• t3_reset_qset(9)
• t3_free_qset(9)
• init_qset_cntxt(9)
• sgl_len(9)
• flits_to_desc(9)
• get_packet(9)
• get_packet_pg(9)
• get_imm_packet(9)
• calc_tx_descs(9)
• write_sgl(9)
• check_ring_tx_db(9)
• write_wr_hdr_sgl(9)
• write_tx_pkt_wr(9)
• t3_eth_xmit(9)
• write_imm(9)
• check_desc_avail(9)
• reclaim_completed_tx_imm(9)
• ctrl_xmit(9)
• restart_ctrlq(9)
• deferred_unmap_destructor(9)
• write_ofld_wr(9)
• calc_tx_descs_ofld(9)
• ofld_xmit(9)
• queue_set(9)
• is_ctrl_pkt(9)
• t3_offload_tx(9)
• offload_enqueue(9)
• deliver_partial_bundle(9)
• ofld_poll(9)
• rx_offload(9)
• restart_tx(9)
• cxgb3_arp_process(9)
• rx_eth(9)
• lro_add_page(9)
• handle_rsp_cntrl_info(9)
• check_ring_db(9)
• is_new_response(9)
• process_responses(9)
• napi_rx_handler(9)
• process_pure_responses(9)
• handle_responses(9)
• t3_intr_handler(9)
• t3_sge_err_intr_handler(9)
• sge_timer_tx(9)
• sge_timer_rx(9)
• t3_update_qset_coalesce(9)
• t3_sge_alloc_qset(9)
• t3_start_sge_timers(9)
• t3_stop_sge_timers(9)
• t3_free_sge_resources(9)
• t3_sge_start(9)
• t3_sge_stop_dma(9)
• t3_sge_stop(9)
• t3_sge_init(9)
• t3_sge_prep(9)

like genuinely, sixty-six whole friends. we love a well-connected function 🌈

and that's the page, bestie 🎀 it came to you from the Kernel API Manual, source ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio..., stamped October 2026 — go forth and restart those queues, ily, bye 💜🦋