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authorDaniel Turull <daniel.turull@gmail.com>2010-06-09 22:49:57 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-06-11 18:37:09 -0700
commit43d28b6515a6ea580a198df3e253e88236f08978 (patch)
tree97419dbd96cfb236694de00397a619cf5a0bab05 /Documentation
parent0c78a92fbd655ab990e2799f645707f05f548e2f (diff)
pktgen: increasing transmission granularity
This patch increases the granularity of the rate generated by pktgen. The previous version of pktgen uses micro seconds (udelay) resolution when it was delayed causing gaps in the rates. It is changed to nanosecond (ndelay). Now any rate is possible. Also it allows to set, the desired rate in Mb/s or packets per second. The documentation has been updated. Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
index 61bb645d50e..75e4fd708cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ Examples:
pgset stop aborts injection. Also, ^C aborts generator.
+ pgset "rate 300M" set rate to 300 Mb/s
+ pgset "ratep 1000000" set rate to 1Mpps
Example scripts
===============
@@ -241,6 +243,9 @@ src6
flows
flowlen
+rate
+ratep
+
References:
ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/pktgen-testing/
ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/pktgen-testing/examples/