svc_rdma_send_ctxt_get(9)

💅 svc_rdma_send_ctxt_get — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🎀

okay so real talk, this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's literally called svc_rdma_send_ctxt_get — say that five times fast, I dare you 🙈

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✨ NAME ✨

svc_rdma_send_ctxt_get — Get a free send_ctxt 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct svc_rdma_send_ctxt * svc_rdma_send_ctxt_get (struct svcxprt_rdma
*rdma );

like, she takes one thing and gives you back a pointer to a struct svc_rdma_send_ctxt, periodt ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• rdma — the controlling svcxprt_rdma, aka the main character of this whole operation 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns a ready-to-use send_ctxt, or NULL if none are available and a fresh one cannot be allocated. that's it, that's the vibe check 😭

so like — if it can hand you one, slay, you got your ctxt 🔥. if there's nothing free and it can't allocate a brand new one? you get NULL, no cap. plan accordingly bestie 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Kernel file ./net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c
• svc_rdma_send_ctxts_destroy(9)
• svc_rdma_send_ctxts_drain(9)
• svc_rdma_send_ctxt_put(9)
• svc_rdma_wake_send_waiters(9)
• svc_rdma_sq_wait(9)
• svc_rdma_post_send_err(9)
• svc_rdma_wc_send(9)
• svc_rdma_post_send(9)
• svc_rdma_encode_read_list(9)
• svc_rdma_encode_write_segment(9)
• svc_rdma_encode_write_chunk(9)
• svc_rdma_encode_write_list(9)
• svc_rdma_encode_reply_chunk(9)
• svc_rdma_page_dma_map(9)
• svc_rdma_iov_dma_map(9)
• svc_rdma_xb_dma_map(9)
• svc_rdma_xb_count_sges(9)
• svc_rdma_check_pull_up(9)
• svc_rdma_xb_linearize(9)
• svc_rdma_pull_up_reply_msg(9)
• svc_rdma_send_error_msg(9)
• svc_rdma_sendto(9)
• svc_rdma_result_payload(9)

like yes that's a lot of siblings but they're all iconic in their own way, go read them too 🧚

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this one comes from ./net/sunrpc/xprtrdma, dated October 2026, and it's filed under svc_rdma_send_ctxt_get(9) — go forth and get those ctxts, bestie 🌈💜