[Patch net-next v2] net: add doc for ip_early_demux sysctl
From: Cong Wang <hidden>
Date: 2013-06-11 10:55:08
From: Cong Wang <redacted> commit 6648bd7e0e62c0c8c03b (ipv4: Add sysctl knob to control early socket demux) introduced such sysctl, but forgot to add doc into Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt. This patch adds it. Basically I grab the doc from the description of commit 41063e9dd11956f2d285 (ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.) and the above commit. Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <redacted> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <redacted> --- v2: change based on David's comments
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9cea5d3..36e5a40 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt@@ -685,6 +685,15 @@ ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN occurs. Default: 0 +ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN + Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for + certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this + for established TCP sockets. + + It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that + reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it. + Default: 1 + icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO requests sent to it.