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Message-Id: <1442305987-6559-1-git-send-email-phil@nwl.cc> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:33:07 +0200 From: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Cc: davem@...emloft.net, cwang@...pensource.com, stephen@...workplumber.org Subject: [PATCH] net: qdisc: enhance default_qdisc documentation Aside from some lingual cleanup, point out which interfaces are not or partly covered by this setting. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> --- Documentation/sysctl/net.txt | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt index 6294b51..809ab6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt @@ -54,13 +54,15 @@ default_qdisc -------------- The default queuing discipline to use for network devices. This allows -overriding the default queue discipline of pfifo_fast with an -alternative. Since the default queuing discipline is created with the -no additional parameters so is best suited to queuing disciplines that -work well without configuration like stochastic fair queue (sfq), -CoDel (codel) or fair queue CoDel (fq_codel). Don't use queuing disciplines -like Hierarchical Token Bucket or Deficit Round Robin which require setting -up classes and bandwidths. +overriding the default of pfifo_fast with an alternative. Since the default +queuing discipline is created without additional parameters so is best suited +to queuing disciplines that work well without configuration like stochastic +fair queue (sfq), CoDel (codel) or fair queue CoDel (fq_codel). Don't use +queuing disciplines like Hierarchical Token Bucket or Deficit Round Robin +which require setting up classes and bandwidths. Note that physical multiqueue +interfaces still use mq as root qdisc, which in turn uses this default for its +leaves. Virtual devices (like e.g. lo or veth) ignore this setting and instead +default to noqueue. Default: pfifo_fast busy_read -- 2.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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