rvu_npc_exa..._table_entry(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 rvu_npc_exact_alloc_table_entry ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — this is a kernel function page, and yes it's about grabbing a table entry. buckle up, it's shorter than it looks but the SEE ALSO list is huge 💀

🌸 NAME 🌸

rvu_npc_exact_alloc_table_entry — Allociate an entry (not me spelling it like that, that's literally what the page says 😭)

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

int rvu_npc_exact_alloc_table_entry (struct rvu *rvu , char *mac , u16
chan , u8 ctype , u32 *index , u8 *ways , enum npc_exact_opc_type
*opc_type );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • rvu — resource virtualization unit. the whole vibe source, iykyk 💜
  • mac — MAC address.
  • chan — Channel number.
  • ctype — Channel Type.
  • index — Index of MEM table or CAM table. 👑
  • ways — Ways. Only valid for MEM table. (MEM-table-only bestie, don't try it elsewhere 🙈)
  • opc_type — OPCODE to select table (MEM or CAM) 🔥

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea 🍓: it tries allocating a slot from the MEM table. if all 4 ways slot are full for a hash index, it checks availability in the 32-entry CAM table for allocation. that's it, that's the whole personality ✨

🌈 RETURN 🌈

0 upon success. slay. 👑

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc_hash.c — and here's the entire friend group 🫶:

ngl this page is giving "one function, thirty-seven friends" energy 💀 but every single one of them is linked above, no cap.

okay that's the whole page bestie 🫶 mwah 💋 — it ships from ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell... and the version stamp says October 2026, so like, future-era kernel lore ⭐ see you in the next manpage ✨

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