t4_pktgl_free(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

t4_pktgl_free(9) — free a packet gather list. That’s the name, bestie, and yes this whole page is from the Kernel API Manual ✨.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void t4_pktgl_free (const struct pkt_gl *gl );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• gl — the gather list 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so this one releases the pages of a packet gather list. Cleanup era, literally 🧹.

Important vibe check: we do not own the last page on the list, and we do not free it — hands off, she’s not ours 🙈.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c — and the whole bestie network: txq_avail(9), fl_cap(9), fl_starving(9), deferred_unmap_destructor(9), free_tx_desc(9), reclaim_completed_tx(9), cxgb4_reclaim_completed_tx(9), free_rx_bufs(9), unmap_rx_buf(9), refill_fl(9), alloc_ring(9), sgl_len(9), flits_to_desc(9), is_eth_imm(9), calc_tx_flits(9), cxgb4_write_sgl(9), cxgb4_ring_tx_db(9), cxgb4_inline_tx_skb(9), t4_sge_eth_txq_egress_update(9), cxgb4_eth_xmit(9), t4vf_is_eth_imm(9), t4vf_calc_tx_flits(9), cxgb4_vf_eth_xmit(9), reclaim_completed_tx_imm(9), cxgb4_ethofld_send_flowc(9), is_imm(9), ctrlq_check_stop(9), ctrl_xmit(9), restart_ctrlq(9), t4_mgmt_tx(9), is_ofld_imm(9), calc_tx_flits_ofld(9), txq_stop_maperr(9), ofldtxq_stop(9), service_ofldq(9), ofld_xmit(9), restart_ofldq(9), skb_txq(9), is_ctrl_pkt(9), t4_ofld_send(9), cxgb4_ofld_send(9), ofld_xmit_direct(9), t4_crypto_send(9), cxgb4_crypto_send(9), cxgb4_pktgl_to_skb(9), cxgb4_sgetim_to_hwtstamp(9), t4_systim_to_hwstamp(9), t4_rx_hststamp(9), t4_tx_hststamp(9), t4_tx_completion_handler(9), t4_ethrx_handler(9), restore_rx_bufs(9), is_new_response(9), rspq_next(9), process_responses(9), napi_rx_handler(9), t4_intr_handler(9), bar2_address(9), t4_sge_alloc_eth_txq(9), t4_free_sge_resources(9), t4_sge_stop(9), t4_sge_init_soft(9), t4_sge_init(9).

xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 — footer vibes: source/version ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio..., date October 2026, page t4_pktgl_free(9). Byeee! 🌈