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From: Phil Sutter <psutter@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:51:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man: tc-skbedit.8: Elaborate a bit on TX queues

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1275426
Upstream Status: iproute2.git commit c73b621cfa480

commit c73b621cfa480b039bf09dc732d7e224e14684ba
Author: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Date:   Tue Mar 22 15:48:37 2016 +0100

    man: tc-skbedit.8: Elaborate a bit on TX queues

    Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 b/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8
index b585a4d..e690296 100644
--- a/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8
+++ b/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ The
 action allows to change a packet's associated meta data. It complements the
 .B pedit
 action, which in turn allows to change parts of the packet data itself.
+
+The most unique feature of
+.B skbedit
+is it's ability to decide over which queue of an interface with multiple
+transmit queues the packet is to be sent out. The number of available transmit
+queues is reflected by sysfs entries within
+.I /sys/class/net/<interface>/queues
+with name
+.I tx-N
+(where
+.I N
+is the actual queue number).
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .BI queue_mapping " QUEUE_MAPPING"
-- 
1.8.3.1