Re: [PATCH 1/2] Update description of net.sctp.sctp_rmem and net.sctp.sctp_wmem tunables

Ben Hutchings
2011-07-04T16:12:01Z

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 18:08 +1000, Max Matveev wrote:
> sctp does not use second and third ("default" and "max") values
> of sctp_(r|w)mem tunables. The format is the same and tcp_(r|w)mem
> but the meaning is different so make the documentation explicit to
> avoid confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com>
> ---
> Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 11 +++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> index d3d653a..f37d374 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> @@ -1465,10 +1465,17 @@ sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
> Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
>
> sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
> - See tcp_rmem for a description.
> + Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
> + ignored and may be removed in the future versions.
> +
> + min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
> + It is guaranteed to each STCP socket (but not association) even

Typo: 'STCP' should be 'SCTP'.

Ben.

> + under moderate memory pressure.
> +
> + Default: 1 page
>
> sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
> - See tcp_wmem for a description.
> + Currently this tunable has no effect.
>
> addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
> Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00

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