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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt10
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 3458d6343e0..a59ee432a98 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -478,6 +478,15 @@ tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
+tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
+ Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
+ Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
+ depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
+ For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
+ TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
+ if available window is too small.
+ Default: 2
+
tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
@@ -562,9 +571,6 @@ tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
typical pfifo_fast qdiscs.
tcp_limit_output_bytes limits the number of bytes on qdisc
or device to reduce artificial RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
- Note: For GSO/TSO enabled flows, we try to have at least two
- packets in flight. Reducing tcp_limit_output_bytes might also
- reduce the size of individual GSO packet (64KB being the max)
Default: 131072
tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
index 23dd80e82b8..0f4376ec885 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
@@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ Transmission process is similar to capture as shown below.
[shutdown] close() --------> destruction of the transmission socket and
deallocation of all associated resources.
+Socket creation and destruction is also straight forward, and is done
+the same way as in capturing described in the previous paragraph:
+
+ int fd = socket(PF_PACKET, mode, 0);
+
+The protocol can optionally be 0 in case we only want to transmit
+via this socket, which avoids an expensive call to packet_rcv().
+In this case, you also need to bind(2) the TX_RING with sll_protocol = 0
+set. Otherwise, htons(ETH_P_ALL) or any other protocol, for example.
+
Binding the socket to your network interface is mandatory (with zero copy) to
know the header size of frames used in the circular buffer.