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From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, cwang@twopensource.com, stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: qdisc: enhance default_qdisc documentation
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:33:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1442305987-6559-1-git-send-email-phil@nwl.cc> (raw)

Aside from some lingual cleanup, point out which interfaces are not or
partly covered by this setting.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/net.txt | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
index 6294b51..809ab6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
@@ -54,13 +54,15 @@ default_qdisc
 --------------
 
 The default queuing discipline to use for network devices. This allows
-overriding the default queue discipline of pfifo_fast with an
-alternative. Since the default queuing discipline is created with the
-no additional parameters so is best suited to queuing disciplines that
-work well without configuration like stochastic fair queue (sfq),
-CoDel (codel) or fair queue CoDel (fq_codel). Don't use queuing disciplines
-like Hierarchical Token Bucket or Deficit Round Robin which require setting
-up classes and bandwidths.
+overriding the default of pfifo_fast with an alternative. Since the default
+queuing discipline is created without additional parameters so is best suited
+to queuing disciplines that work well without configuration like stochastic
+fair queue (sfq), CoDel (codel) or fair queue CoDel (fq_codel). Don't use
+queuing disciplines like Hierarchical Token Bucket or Deficit Round Robin
+which require setting up classes and bandwidths. Note that physical multiqueue
+interfaces still use mq as root qdisc, which in turn uses this default for its
+leaves. Virtual devices (like e.g. lo or veth) ignore this setting and instead
+default to noqueue.
 Default: pfifo_fast
 
 busy_read
-- 
2.1.2

             reply	other threads:[~2015-09-15  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15  8:33 Phil Sutter [this message]
2015-09-16 21:09 ` [PATCH] net: qdisc: enhance default_qdisc documentation Cong Wang
2015-09-17 23:09 ` David Miller

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