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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-10-07 13:38:43 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-10-07 13:38:43 -0400 |
| commit | 88c5100c28b02c4b2b2c6f6fafbbd76d90f698b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 08c4399e0341f7eb0ccb24e15f2cab687275c2a4 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 8083f0fc969d9b5353061a7a6f963405057e26b1 (diff) | |
| parent | 3ee72ca99288f1de95ec9c570e43f531c8799f06 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:davem330/net
Conflicts:
net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/scaling.txt | 12 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 98c8d4229f0..cb7f3148035 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ conf/interface/*: The functional behaviour for certain settings is different depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not. -accept_ra - BOOLEAN +accept_ra - INTEGER Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them. It also determines whether or not to transmit Router @@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ dad_transmits - INTEGER The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send. Default: 1 -forwarding - BOOLEAN +forwarding - INTEGER Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour. Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index 58fd7414e6c..fe67b5c79f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ applying a filter to each packet that assigns it to one of a small number of logical flows. Packets for each flow are steered to a separate receive queue, which in turn can be processed by separate CPUs. This mechanism is generally known as “Receive-side Scaling” (RSS). The goal of RSS and -the other scaling techniques to increase performance uniformly. +the other scaling techniques is to increase performance uniformly. Multi-queue distribution can also be used for traffic prioritization, but that is not the focus of these techniques. @@ -186,10 +186,10 @@ are steered using plain RPS. Multiple table entries may point to the same CPU. Indeed, with many flows and few CPUs, it is very likely that a single application thread handles flows with many different flow hashes. -rps_sock_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU for -flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. Each -table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg and -sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() +rps_sock_flow_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU +for flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. +Each table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg +and sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() and tcp_splice_read()). When the scheduler moves a thread to a new CPU while it has outstanding @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ configured. The number of entries in the global flow table is set through: The number of entries in the per-queue flow table are set through: - /sys/class/net/<dev>/queues/tx-<n>/rps_flow_cnt + /sys/class/net/<dev>/queues/rx-<n>/rps_flow_cnt == Suggested Configuration |