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Date:   Tue, 2 Jan 2018 18:07:18 -0200
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Chris Mi <chrism@...lanox.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, gerlitz.or@...il.com,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch iproute2 v4 3/3] man: Add -bs option to tc manpage

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 11:28:04PM +0900, Chris Mi wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mi <chrism@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  man/man8/tc.8 | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man8/tc.8 b/man/man8/tc.8
> index ff071b33..de137e16 100644
> --- a/man/man8/tc.8
> +++ b/man/man8/tc.8
> @@ -601,6 +601,11 @@ must exist already.
>  read commands from provided file or standard input and invoke them.
>  First failure will cause termination of tc.
>  
> +.TP
> +.BR "\-bs", " \-bs size", " \-batchsize", " \-batchsize size"
> +How many commands are accumulated before sending to kernel.
> +By default, it is 1. It only takes effect in batch mode.
> +

You should also describe the limitations it has. Like, it only works
for action and filter and that it shouldn't be mixed with other
commands.
And maybe even do such check in the code: refuse to do other commands
if batch_size > 1.

>  .TP
>  .BR "\-force"
>  don't terminate tc on errors in batch mode.
> -- 
> 2.14.3
>