netdev - [net-next] bonding: add documentation for peer_notif

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Date:   Sat, 13 Jul 2019 16:35:27 +0200
From:   Vincent Bernat <vincent@...nat.ch>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, j.vosburgh@...il.com,
        vfalico@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Vincent Bernat <vincent@...nat.ch>
Subject: [net-next] bonding: add documentation for peer_notif_delay

Ability to tweak the interval between peer notifications has been
added in 07a4ddec3ce9 ("bonding: add an option to specify a delay
between peer notifications") but the documentation was not updated.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <vincent@...nat.ch>
---
 Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index d3e5dd26db12..e3abfbd32f71 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -706,9 +706,9 @@ num_unsol_na
 	unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements) to be issued after a
 	failover event.  As soon as the link is up on the new slave
 	(possibly immediately) a peer notification is sent on the
-	bonding device and each VLAN sub-device.  This is repeated at
-	each link monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever
-	is active) if the number is greater than 1.
+	bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at
+	the rate specified by peer_notif_delay if the number is
+	greater than 1.
 
 	The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1.  These options
 	affect only the active-backup mode.  These options were added for
@@ -727,6 +727,16 @@ packets_per_slave
 	The valid range is 0 - 65535; the default value is 1. This option
 	has effect only in balance-rr mode.
 
+peer_notif_delay
+
+        Specify the delay, in milliseconds, between each peer
+        notification (gratuitous ARP and unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor
+        Advertisement) when they are issued after a failover event.
+        This delay should be a multiple of the link monitor interval
+        (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active). The default
+        value is 0 which means to match the value of the link monitor
+        interval.
+
 primary
 
 	A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the
-- 
2.22.0