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Date:   Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:48:56 +0800
From:   Chris Mi <chrism@...lanox.com>
To:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.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

2018/1/3 4:07, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner:
> 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.
Done.
> And maybe even do such check in the code: refuse to do other commands
> if batch_size > 1.
I didn't add it because I'm afraid the benefit may be gone if I add the 
check.
But I add a warning in the man page.
>
>>   .TP
>>   .BR "\-force"
>>   don't terminate tc on errors in batch mode.
>> -- 
>> 2.14.3
>>