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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt | 62 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/s2io.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/scaling.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/vxge.txt | 2 |
7 files changed, 94 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 1b8c964b0d17..4412f695a62f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -388,6 +388,16 @@ tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss. +tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER + Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU + Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as + per RFC4821. + +tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER + Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing + will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default + is 8 bytes. + tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache when the connection closes, so that connections established in the diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt index 7a3c04729591..3ba709531adb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt @@ -22,6 +22,27 @@ backup_only - BOOLEAN If set, disable the director function while the server is in backup mode to avoid packet loops for DR/TUN methods. +conn_reuse_mode - INTEGER + 1 - default + + Controls how ipvs will deal with connections that are detected + port reuse. It is a bitmap, with the values being: + + 0: disable any special handling on port reuse. The new + connection will be delivered to the same real server that was + servicing the previous connection. This will effectively + disable expire_nodest_conn. + + bit 1: enable rescheduling of new connections when it is safe. + That is, whenever expire_nodest_conn and for TCP sockets, when + the connection is in TIME_WAIT state (which is only possible if + you use NAT mode). + + bit 2: it is bit 1 plus, for TCP connections, when connections + are in FIN_WAIT state, as this is the last state seen by load + balancer in Direct Routing mode. This bit helps on adding new + real servers to a very busy cluster. + conntrack - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled (default) not 0 - enabled diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..639ddf0ece9b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +/proc/sys/net/mpls/* Variables: + +platform_labels - INTEGER + Number of entries in the platform label table. It is not + possible to configure forwarding for label values equal to or + greater than the number of platform labels. + + A dense utliziation of the entries in the platform label table + is possible and expected aas the platform labels are locally + allocated. + + If the number of platform label table entries is set to 0 no + label will be recognized by the kernel and mpls forwarding + will be disabled. + + Reducing this value will remove all label routing entries that + no longer fit in the table. + + Possible values: 0 - 1048575 + Default: 0 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt index 6915c6b27869..0344f1d45b37 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt @@ -3,13 +3,11 @@ HOWTO for the linux packet generator ------------------------------------ -Date: 041221 - -Enable CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN to compile and build pktgen.o either in kernel -or as module. Module is preferred. insmod pktgen if needed. Once running -pktgen creates a thread on each CPU where each thread has affinity to its CPU. -Monitoring and controlling is done via /proc. Easiest to select a suitable -a sample script and configure. +Enable CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN to compile and build pktgen either in-kernel +or as a module. A module is preferred; modprobe pktgen if needed. Once +running, pktgen creates a thread for each CPU with affinity to that CPU. +Monitoring and controlling is done via /proc. It is easiest to select a +suitable sample script and configure that. On a dual CPU: @@ -27,7 +25,7 @@ For monitoring and control pktgen creates: Tuning NIC for max performance ============================== -The default NIC setting are (likely) not tuned for pktgen's artificial +The default NIC settings are (likely) not tuned for pktgen's artificial overload type of benchmarking, as this could hurt the normal use-case. Specifically increasing the TX ring buffer in the NIC: @@ -35,20 +33,20 @@ Specifically increasing the TX ring buffer in the NIC: A larger TX ring can improve pktgen's performance, while it can hurt in the general case, 1) because the TX ring buffer might get larger -than the CPUs L1/L2 cache, 2) because it allow more queueing in the +than the CPU's L1/L2 cache, 2) because it allows more queueing in the NIC HW layer (which is bad for bufferbloat). -One should be careful to conclude, that packets/descriptors in the HW +One should hesitate to conclude that packets/descriptors in the HW TX ring cause delay. Drivers usually delay cleaning up the -ring-buffers (for various performance reasons), thus packets stalling -the TX ring, might just be waiting for cleanup. +ring-buffers for various performance reasons, and packets stalling +the TX ring might just be waiting for cleanup. -This cleanup issues is specifically the case, for the driver ixgbe -(Intel 82599 chip). This driver (ixgbe) combine TX+RX ring cleanups, +This cleanup issue is specifically the case for the driver ixgbe +(Intel 82599 chip). This driver (ixgbe) combines TX+RX ring cleanups, and the cleanup interval is affected by the ethtool --coalesce setting of parameter "rx-usecs". -For ixgbe use e.g "30" resulting in approx 33K interrupts/sec (1/30*10^6): +For ixgbe use e.g. "30" resulting in approx 33K interrupts/sec (1/30*10^6): # ethtool -C ethX rx-usecs 30 @@ -60,15 +58,16 @@ Running: Stopped: eth1 Result: OK: max_before_softirq=10000 -Most important the devices assigned to thread. Note! A device can only belong -to one thread. +Most important are the devices assigned to the thread. Note that a +device can only belong to one thread. Viewing devices =============== -Parm section holds configured info. Current hold running stats. -Result is printed after run or after interruption. Example: +The Params section holds configured information. The Current section +holds running statistics. The Result is printed after a run or after +interruption. Example: /proc/net/pktgen/eth1 @@ -93,7 +92,8 @@ Result: OK: 13101142(c12220741+d880401) usec, 10000000 (60byte,0frags) Configuring threads and devices ================================ -This is done via the /proc interface easiest done via pgset in the scripts +This is done via the /proc interface, and most easily done via pgset +as defined in the sample scripts. Examples: @@ -192,10 +192,11 @@ Examples: pgset "rate 300M" set rate to 300 Mb/s pgset "ratep 1000000" set rate to 1Mpps -Example scripts -=============== +Sample scripts +============== -A collection of small tutorial scripts for pktgen is in examples dir. +A collection of small tutorial scripts for pktgen is in the +samples/pktgen directory: pktgen.conf-1-1 # 1 CPU 1 dev pktgen.conf-1-2 # 1 CPU 2 dev @@ -206,25 +207,26 @@ pktgen.conf-1-1-ip6 # 1 CPU 1 dev ipv6 pktgen.conf-1-1-ip6-rdos # 1 CPU 1 dev ipv6 w. route DoS pktgen.conf-1-1-flows # 1 CPU 1 dev multiple flows. -Run in shell: ./pktgen.conf-X-Y It does all the setup including sending. +Run in shell: ./pktgen.conf-X-Y +This does all the setup including sending. Interrupt affinity =================== -Note when adding devices to a specific CPU there good idea to also assign -/proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity so the TX-interrupts gets bound to the same CPU. -as this reduces cache bouncing when freeing skb's. +Note that when adding devices to a specific CPU it is a good idea to +also assign /proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity so that the TX interrupts are bound +to the same CPU. This reduces cache bouncing when freeing skbs. Enable IPsec ============ -Default IPsec transformation with ESP encapsulation plus Transport mode -could be enabled by simply setting: +Default IPsec transformation with ESP encapsulation plus transport mode +can be enabled by simply setting: pgset "flag IPSEC" pgset "flows 1" To avoid breaking existing testbed scripts for using AH type and tunnel mode, -user could use "pgset spi SPI_VALUE" to specify which formal of transformation +you can use "pgset spi SPI_VALUE" to specify which transformation mode to employ. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt index d2a9f43b5546..0362a42f7cf4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The corresponding adapter's LED will blink multiple times. 3. Features supported: a. Jumbo frames. Xframe I/II supports MTU up to 9600 bytes, -modifiable using ifconfig command. +modifiable using ip command. b. Offloads. Supports checksum offload(TCP/UDP/IP) on transmit and receive, TSO. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index 99ca40e8e810..cbfac0949635 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -421,6 +421,15 @@ best CPUs to share a given queue are probably those that share the cache with the CPU that processes transmit completions for that queue (transmit interrupts). +Per TX Queue rate limitation: +============================= + +These are rate-limitation mechanisms implemented by HW, where currently +a max-rate attribute is supported, by setting a Mbps value to + +/sys/class/net/<dev>/queues/tx-<n>/tx_maxrate + +A value of zero means disabled, and this is the default. Further Information =================== diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxge.txt b/Documentation/networking/vxge.txt index bb76c667a476..abfec245f97c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/vxge.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/vxge.txt @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ iii) PCI-SIG's I/O Virtualization iv) Jumbo frames X3100 Series supports MTU up to 9600 bytes, modifiable using - ifconfig command. + ip command. v) Offloads supported: (Enabled by default) Checksum offload (TCP/UDP/IP) on transmit and receive paths |