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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/net.txt')
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1 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt index 04892b821157..666594b43cff 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt @@ -120,10 +120,14 @@ seconds. warnings -------- -This controls console messages from the networking stack that can occur because -of problems on the network like duplicate address or bad checksums. Normally, -this should be enabled, but if the problem persists the messages can be -disabled. +This sysctl is now unused. + +This was used to control console messages from the networking stack that +occur because of problems on the network like duplicate address or bad +checksums. + +These messages are now emitted at KERN_DEBUG and can generally be enabled +and controlled by the dynamic_debug facility. netdev_budget ------------- @@ -138,6 +142,28 @@ netdev_max_backlog Maximum number of packets, queued on the INPUT side, when the interface receives packets faster than kernel can process them. +netdev_rss_key +-------------- + +RSS (Receive Side Scaling) enabled drivers use a 40 bytes host key that is +randomly generated. +Some user space might need to gather its content even if drivers do not +provide ethtool -x support yet. + +myhost:~# cat /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key +84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8: ... (52 bytes total) + +File contains nul bytes if no driver ever called netdev_rss_key_fill() function. +Note: +/proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key contains 52 bytes of key, +but most drivers only use 40 bytes of it. + +myhost:~# ethtool -x eth0 +RX flow hash indirection table for eth0 with 8 RX ring(s): + 0: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 +RSS hash key: +84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8:43:e3:c9:0c:fd:17:55:c2:3a:4d:69:ed:f1:42:89 + netdev_tstamp_prequeue ---------------------- |