From 067dc31603717259cfc09b859ffccbe1178553a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phil Sutter 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 Date: Tue Mar 22 15:48:37 2016 +0100 man: tc-skbedit.8: Elaborate a bit on TX queues Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- 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//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