STRUCT SND_COMPRESSED_BUFFER(9)

💖 NAME 💖

struct snd_compressed_buffer — the compressed buffer, bestie. that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and we're about to get into it 🫶

---

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct snd_compressed_buffer {
    __u32 fragment_size;
    __u32 fragments;
 };

look at her. two fields. small but iconic 👑

---

🌸 Members 🌸

• fragment_size — the size of a buffer fragment, in bytes 💅 literally just how big one lil piece is
• fragments — the number of such fragments 🔥 so like, how many of those pieces you got

put them together and you've got yourself a whole buffer situation, no cap 🧚

---

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay so this struct does NOT exist in a vacuum, she runs with a whole friend group 😭 all of these live in the kernel file ./include/uapi/sound/compress_offload.h:

• struct snd_compr_params(9)
• struct snd_compr_tstamp(9)
• struct snd_compr_tstamp64(9)
• struct snd_compr_avail(9)
• struct snd_compr_avail64(9)
• struct snd_compr_caps(9)
• struct snd_compr_codec_caps(9)
• enum sndrv_compress_encoder(9)
• struct snd_compr_metadata(9)
• struct snd_compr_task(9)
• enum snd_compr_state(9)
• struct snd_compr_task_status(9)

go read them, iykyk 📚💜

---

ngl bestie, if you're here it's because you're messing with compressed audio offload in the kernel, and honestly? main character energy 🌈

---

and that's the whole page, periodt 💅 this came to you from the kernel source file ./include/uapi/sound, dated October 2026 — stan the kernel docs, they ate 🍓👑