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From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [iproute PATCH 6/8] man: tc-skbedit.8: Elaborate a bit on TX queues
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:56:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458165384-900-7-git-send-email-phil@nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458165384-900-1-git-send-email-phil@nwl.cc>

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
---
 man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 b/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8
index b585a4d4253ba..c75d082148ac3 100644
--- a/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8
+++ b/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ The
 action allows to change a packet's associated meta data. It complements the
 .B pedit
 action, which in turn allows to change parts of the packet data itself.
+
+The most unique feature of
+.B skbedit
+is it's ability to decide over which queue of an interface with multiple
+transmit queues the packet is to be sent out. The number of available transmit
+queues is reflected by sysfs entries within
+.I /sys/class/net/<interface>/queues
+with name
+.I tx-N
+(where
+.I N
+is the actual queue number).
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .BI queue_mapping " QUEUE_MAPPING"
@@ -40,6 +52,8 @@ Change the packet's firewall mark value.
 is an unsigned 32bit value in automatically detected format (i.e., prefix with
 .RB ' 0x '
 for hexadecimal interpretation, etc.).
+.SH EXAMPLES
+XXX: write me
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR tc (8),
 .BR tc-pedit (8)
-- 
2.7.2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-16 21:56 [iproute PATCH 0/8] Follow-up to my action man pages series Phil Sutter
2016-03-16 21:56 ` [iproute PATCH 1/8] doc/tc-filters.tex: Drop overly subjective paragraphs Phil Sutter
2016-03-16 21:56 ` [iproute PATCH 2/8] tc: connmark, pedit: Rename BRANCH to CONTROL Phil Sutter
2016-03-21 19:08   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-16 21:56 ` [iproute PATCH 3/8] man: tc-csum.8: Add an example Phil Sutter
2016-03-16 21:56 ` [iproute PATCH 4/8] man: tc-mirred.8: Reword man page a bit, add generic mirror example Phil Sutter
2016-03-16 21:56 ` [iproute PATCH 5/8] man: tc-police.8: Emphasize on the two rate control mechanisms Phil Sutter
2016-03-16 21:56 ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2016-03-16 21:56 ` [iproute PATCH 7/8] tc/m_vlan.c: mention CONTROL option in help text Phil Sutter
2016-03-16 21:56 ` [iproute PATCH 8/8] man: tc-vlan.8: Describe CONTROL option Phil Sutter

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