From e451e61b56b0401442f7a306cd309c3b0c56c285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Wang Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:26:27 -0400 Subject: net: fix a typo in Documentation/networking/scaling.txt Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/scaling.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index 58fd7414e6c0..8ce7c30e7230 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ configured. The number of entries in the global flow table is set through: The number of entries in the per-queue flow table are set through: - /sys/class/net//queues/tx-/rps_flow_cnt + /sys/class/net//queues/rx-/rps_flow_cnt == Suggested Configuration -- cgit v1.2.3 From 605b91c8f619047ed6d88e24c531d4bdddad46f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Roy.Li" Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:51:54 +0000 Subject: net: Documentation: Fix type of variables Signed-off-by: Roy.Li Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 81546990f41c..ca5cdcd0f0e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ conf/interface/*: The functional behaviour for certain settings is different depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not. -accept_ra - BOOLEAN +accept_ra - INTEGER Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them. Possible values are: @@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ dad_transmits - INTEGER The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send. Default: 1 -forwarding - BOOLEAN +forwarding - INTEGER Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour. Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all -- cgit v1.2.3 From 186c6bbced722cfeff041d2a1264c95f5d042050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Poirier Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 04:00:30 +0000 Subject: net: fix typos in Documentation/networking/scaling.txt The second hunk fixes rps_sock_flow_table but has to re-wrap the paragraph. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/scaling.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index 8ce7c30e7230..fe67b5c79f0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ applying a filter to each packet that assigns it to one of a small number of logical flows. Packets for each flow are steered to a separate receive queue, which in turn can be processed by separate CPUs. This mechanism is generally known as “Receive-side Scaling” (RSS). The goal of RSS and -the other scaling techniques to increase performance uniformly. +the other scaling techniques is to increase performance uniformly. Multi-queue distribution can also be used for traffic prioritization, but that is not the focus of these techniques. @@ -186,10 +186,10 @@ are steered using plain RPS. Multiple table entries may point to the same CPU. Indeed, with many flows and few CPUs, it is very likely that a single application thread handles flows with many different flow hashes. -rps_sock_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU for -flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. Each -table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg and -sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() +rps_sock_flow_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU +for flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. +Each table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg +and sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() and tcp_splice_read()). When the scheduler moves a thread to a new CPU while it has outstanding -- cgit v1.2.3