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From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, andy@greyhouse.net, fubar@us.ibm.com,
	vfalico@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] bonding: document the new packets_per_slave option
Date: Tue,  5 Nov 2013 13:51:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383655902-18744-3-git-send-email-nikolay@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383655902-18744-1-git-send-email-nikolay@redhat.com>

Add new documentation for the packets_per_slave option available
for balance-rr mode.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index 3856ed2..2cdb8b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -639,6 +639,15 @@ num_unsol_na
 	are generated by the ipv4 and ipv6 code and the numbers of
 	repetitions cannot be set independently.
 
+packets_per_slave
+
+	Specify the number of packets to transmit through a slave before
+	moving to the next one. When set to 0 then a slave is chosen at
+	random.
+
+	The valid range is 0 - 65535; the default value is 1. This option
+	has effect only in balance-rr mode.
+
 primary
 
 	A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the
-- 
1.8.1.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-05 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-05 12:51 [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-11-05 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode with packets_per_slave Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-11-06 13:47   ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-11-05 12:51 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov [this message]
2013-11-06 16:55 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode Jay Vosburgh
2013-11-06 17:51   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-11-07 20:12 ` David Miller

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