From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH man-page] packet.7: document PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:24:45 +0100 Message-ID: <52E7BDAD.7010005@gmail.com> References: <1386689485-18833-1-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1386689485-18833-1-git-send-email-dborkman-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Daniel Borkmann Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, brouer-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Daniel, I've applied this patch. I have a question below. On 12/10/2013 04:31 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > Add a comment about PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS' socket option to the kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann > --- > Michael, this patch is on top of Willem's resend for packet.7: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg04576.html > > Kernel part of this man page update: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=d346a3fae3ff1d99f5d0c819bf86edf9094a26a1 > > Thanks! > > man7/packet.7 | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man7/packet.7 b/man7/packet.7 > index e0993d2..100f876 100644 > --- a/man7/packet.7 > +++ b/man7/packet.7 > @@ -426,6 +426,11 @@ creates a packet receive ring of variant > .BR TPACKET_V1 . > To create another variant, configure the desired variant by setting this > integer option before creating the ring. > +.TP > +.BR PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS " (since Linux 3.14)" > +By default, packets sent through packet sockets pass through the kernel's > +qdisc (traffic control) layer. This can be bypassed by setting this integer > +option to one for usage scenarios similar to pktgen. This last sentence is a little unclear. Would it be better as: This can be bypassed by setting this integer option to one; this is useful for usage scenarios similar to pktgen. Or something like that. Also, can you elaborate a little on what pktgen is please. Thanks, Michael > .SS Ioctls > .B SIOCGSTAMP > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html