[Patch net-next v2] net: add doc for ip_early_demux sysctl

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2 messages, 2 authors, 2013-06-12 · open the first message on its own page

[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.

Re: [Patch net-next v2] net: add doc for ip_early_demux sysctl

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2013-06-12 22:10:27

From: Cong Wang <redacted>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:54:39 +0800
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>
Applied, thank you.
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