netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 04/10] pktgen: document ability to add same device to several threads

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 14:54:13 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@...earbox.net>,
	Robert Olsson <robert@...julf.se>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 04/10] pktgen: document ability to add same device
 to several threads

On 5/19/15 2:35 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> The pktgen.txt documentation still claimed that adding same device to
> multiple threads were not supported, but it have been since 2008 via
> commit e6fce5b916cd7 ("pktgen: multiqueue etc.").
>
> Document this and describe the naming scheme dev@X, as the procfile name
> still need to be unique.
>
> Fixes: e6fce5b916cd7 ("pktgen: multiqueue etc.")
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
...
> -Most important are the devices assigned to the thread.  Note that a
> -device can only belong to one thread.
> +The two basic thread commands are:
> + * add_device DEVICE@...E -- adds a single device

Great work for the whole series!
Wanted to specifically
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
this patch, since it could have saved me days of pointlessly
reimplementing existing feature and likely will help others
in the future. People do read docs :)

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