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authorCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>2013-06-11 18:54:39 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-06-12 15:10:13 -0700
commite3d73bcedfdf66d21349fee00241b0931d28a943 (patch)
tree7a7ea81056416e79578c446f33ce0e3a314a2c45 /Documentation
parent944a1376b6ca1f00cc67f7d319afd55d5d9afba5 (diff)
net: add doc for ip_early_demux sysctl
commit 6648bd7e0e62c0c8c03b (ipv4: Add sysctl knob to control early socket demux) introduced such sysctl, but forgot to add doc into Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt. This patch adds it. Basically I grab the doc from the description of commit 41063e9dd11956f2d285 (ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.) and the above commit. Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9cea5d3b3c5..36e5a402ed0 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -685,6 +685,15 @@ ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
occurs.
Default: 0
+ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
+ Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
+ certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this
+ for established TCP sockets.
+
+ It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
+ reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
+ Default: 1
+
icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
requests sent to it.