sxgbe_rx_refill(9)

💖 sxgbe_rx_refill(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay so real talk, bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, the kernel-functions girlies 🎀), and it's all about one tiny but lowkey essential function. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sxgbe_rx_refill — literally refills the used skb preallocated buffers 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void sxgbe_rx_refill (struct sxgbe_priv_data *priv );

that's it. one arg. no return value. she's simple, she's iconic 👑

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• priv — the driver private structure 💜 like, the whole personality of the driver in one struct. you hand her over and she knows what to do.

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so what's the vibe here? this function reallocates the skb for the reception process, and the reception process is based on zero-copy. that's the whole plot. not me explaining a kernel function in one sentence and then just staring at you 🙈 but fr fr, that's what the page says, and we do not invent lore around here.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the obligatory group chat of related functions, no cap, every single one of them:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c 📁
• sxgbe_verify_args(9)
• sxgbe_eee_ctrl_timer(9)
• sxgbe_eee_init(9)
• sxgbe_clk_csr_set(9)
• sxgbe_adjust_link(9)
• sxgbe_init_phy(9)
• sxgbe_clear_descriptors(9)
• sxgbe_free_rx_buffers(9)
• init_tx_ring(9)
• free_rx_ring(9)
• init_rx_ring(9)
• free_tx_ring(9)
• init_dma_desc_rings(9)
• sxgbe_mtl_operation_mode(9)
• sxgbe_tx_queue_clean(9)
• sxgbe_tx_all_clean(9)
• sxgbe_restart_tx_queue(9)
• sxgbe_reset_all_tx_queues(9)
• sxgbe_get_hw_features(9)
• sxgbe_check_ether_addr(9)
• sxgbe_init_dma_engine(9)
• sxgbe_init_mtl_engine(9)
• sxgbe_disable_mtl_engine(9)
• sxgbe_tx_timer(9)
• sxgbe_tx_init_coalesce(9)
• sxgbe_open(9)
• sxgbe_release(9)
• sxgbe_xmit(9)
• sxgbe_rx(9)
• sxgbe_poll(9)
• sxgbe_tx_timeout(9)
• sxgbe_common_interrupt(9)
• sxgbe_tx_interrupt(9)
• sxgbe_rx_interrupt(9)
• sxgbe_set_rx_mode(9)
• sxgbe_poll_controller(9)
• sxgbe_hw_init(9)
• sxgbe_drv_probe(9)
• sxgbe_drv_remove(9)

like, that's the whole friend group right there. go say hi 🫶

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ngl bestie, that's the entire page. it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "small function, big responsibilities" 😭💀 don't sleep on the buffer refill, okay?

and that's a wrap, mwah 💋 — this little love letter to the kernel comes from ./drivers/net/ethernet/samsung... and is dated October 2026, page sxgbe_rx_refill(9), signed, sealed, slayed 🌸✨🎀