netdev - [PATCH net] Documentation: ip-sysctl.txt: Document tcp_fwmark

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Date:   Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:30:29 +0900
From:   Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, zenczykowski@...il.com,
        Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] Documentation: ip-sysctl.txt: Document tcp_fwmark_accept

This patch documents the tcp_fwmark_accept sysctl that was
added in 3.15.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 163b5ff107..32b21571ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -316,6 +316,17 @@ tcp_frto - INTEGER
 
 	By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
 
+tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN
+	If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a
+	socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of
+	the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection
+	(starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The
+	listening socket's mark is unchanged. Listening sockets that already
+	have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are
+	unaffected.
+
+	Default: 0
+
 tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
 	Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
 	in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
-- 
2.19.1.568.g152ad8e336-goog