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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: Li Wei <lw@cn•fujitsu.com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tc-tbf.8: Add parameter range to man page.
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:30:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813083015.27b66cd7@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344306632-15288-1-git-send-email-lw@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:30:32 +0800
Li Wei <lw@cn•fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Li Wei <lw@cn•fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  man/man8/tc-tbf.8 |    6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man8/tc-tbf.8 b/man/man8/tc-tbf.8
> index 3abb238..7b76146 100644
> --- a/man/man8/tc-tbf.8
> +++ b/man/man8/tc-tbf.8
> @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ latency parameter, which specifies the maximum amount of time a packet can
>  sit in the TBF. The latter calculation takes into account the size of the
>  bucket, the rate and possibly the peakrate (if set). These two parameters
>  are mutually exclusive. 
> +The range of parameter limit is [1, UINT32_MAX] bytes.
>  .TP
>  burst
>  Also known as buffer or maxburst.
> @@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ if you want to reach your configured rate!
>  
>  If your buffer is too small, packets may be dropped because more tokens arrive per timer tick than fit in your bucket.
>  The minimum buffer size can be calculated by dividing the rate by HZ.
> +The range of this parameter is [1, UINT32_MAX] bytes.
>  
>  Token usage calculations are performed using a table which by default has a resolution of 8 packets. 
>  This resolution can be changed by specifying the 
> @@ -96,11 +98,13 @@ this. Must be an integral power of 2.
>  mpu
>  A zero-sized packet does not use zero bandwidth. For ethernet, no packet uses less than 64 bytes. The Minimum Packet Unit 
>  determines the minimal token usage (specified in bytes) for a packet. Defaults to zero.
> +The range of this parameter is [0, UINT32_MAX] bytes.
>  .TP
>  rate
>  The speed knob. See remarks above about limits! See 
>  .BR tc (8)
>  for units.
> +The range of this parameter is [1, UINT32_MAX] bps.
>  .PP
>  Furthermore, if a peakrate is desired, the following parameters are available:
>  
> @@ -108,12 +112,14 @@ Furthermore, if a peakrate is desired, the following parameters are available:
>  peakrate
>  Maximum depletion rate of the bucket. Limited to 1mbit/s on Intel, 10mbit/s on Alpha. The peakrate does 
>  not need to be set, it is only necessary if perfect millisecond timescale shaping is required.
> +The range of this parameter is [1, UINT32_MAX] bps.
>  
>  .TP
>  mtu/minburst
>  Specifies the size of the peakrate bucket. For perfect accuracy, should be set to the MTU of the interface.
>  If a peakrate is needed, but some burstiness is acceptable, this size can be raised. A 3000 byte minburst
>  allows around 3mbit/s of peakrate, given 1000 byte packets.
> +The range of this parameter is [1, UINT32_MAX] bytes.
>  
>  Like the regular burstsize you can also specify a 
>  .B cell

Not sure about this, other qdisc don't document ranges on their man pages.
Probably better to fix the generic documentation about qdisc parameters
which already exists on 'tc-qdisc' man page.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-07  2:30 [PATCH] tc-tbf.8: Add parameter range to man page Li Wei
2012-08-13 15:30 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-08-20  6:36   ` Li Wei
2012-08-20 17:58     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-21  0:48       ` Li Wei

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