From 9d1e99695d9c39432a66ec20f36928bf053410a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Sutter <psutter@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:45:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] TBF man page fix (tbf is not classless)
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251186
Upstream Status: iproute2.git commit 7bc7fcaadbd2d
commit 7bc7fcaadbd2db1aef1f9b15216a97f63d826493
Author: Sergey V. Lobanov <sergey@lobanov.in>
Date: Fri May 9 22:12:54 2014 +0400
TBF man page fix (tbf is not classless)
TBF is not classless qdisc. man page corrected, added example
describing the use of inner qdisc
Signed-off-by: Sergey V. Lobanov <sergey@lobanov.in>
---
man/man8/tc-tbf.8 | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/tc-tbf.8 b/man/man8/tc-tbf.8
index 51310f1..fc2c837 100644
--- a/man/man8/tc-tbf.8
+++ b/man/man8/tc-tbf.8
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ bytes/cell
burst is also known as buffer and maxburst. mtu is also known as minburst.
.SH DESCRIPTION
-The Token Bucket Filter is a classless queueing discipline available for
+The Token Bucket Filter is a classful queueing discipline available for
traffic control with the
.BR tc (8)
command.
@@ -121,9 +121,17 @@ To attach a TBF with a sustained maximum rate of 0.5mbit/s, a peakrate of 1.0mbi
a 5kilobyte buffer, with a pre-bucket queue size limit calculated so the TBF causes
at most 70ms of latency, with perfect peakrate behaviour, issue:
.P
-# tc qdisc add dev eth0 root tbf rate 0.5mbit \\
+# tc qdisc add dev eth0 handle 10: root tbf rate 0.5mbit \\
burst 5kb latency 70ms peakrate 1mbit \\
minburst 1540
+.P
+To attach an inner qdisc, for example sfq, issue:
+.P
+# tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 10:1 handle 100: sfq
+.P
+Without inner qdisc TBF queue acts as bfifo. If the inner qdisc is changed
+the limit/latency is not effective anymore.
+.P
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR tc (8)
--
1.8.3.1