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Message-ID: <20231101010712.GD92403@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 09:07:12 +0800
From: Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@...ux.ibm.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Jan Karcher <jaka@...ux.ibm.com>, Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Tony Lu <tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/smc: fix documentation of buffer sizes

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:03:43PM +0100, Gerd Bayer wrote:
>Since commit 833bac7ec392 ("net/smc: Fix setsockopt and sysctl to
>specify same buffer size again") the SMC protocol uses its own
>default values for the smc.rmem and smc.wmem sysctl variables
>which are no longer derived from the TCP IPv4 buffer sizes.
>
>Fixup the kernel documentation to reflect this change, too.
>
>Fixes: 833bac7ec392 ("net/smc: Fix setsockopt and sysctl to specify same buffer size again")
>Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@...ux.ibm.com>
>Reviewed-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@...ux.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>

>---
> Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
>index 6d8acdbe9be1..769149d98773 100644
>--- a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
>+++ b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
>@@ -44,18 +44,16 @@ smcr_testlink_time - INTEGER
> 
> wmem - INTEGER
> 	Initial size of send buffer used by SMC sockets.
>-	The default value inherits from net.ipv4.tcp_wmem[1].
> 
> 	The minimum value is 16KiB and there is no hard limit for max value, but
> 	only allowed 512KiB for SMC-R and 1MiB for SMC-D.
> 
>-	Default: 16K
>+	Default: 64KiB
> 
> rmem - INTEGER
> 	Initial size of receive buffer (RMB) used by SMC sockets.
>-	The default value inherits from net.ipv4.tcp_rmem[1].
> 
> 	The minimum value is 16KiB and there is no hard limit for max value, but
> 	only allowed 512KiB for SMC-R and 1MiB for SMC-D.
> 
>-	Default: 128K
>+	Default: 64KiB
>-- 
>2.41.0