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author | Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> | 2014-04-08 20:27:17 (GMT) |
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committer | Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> | 2014-04-08 20:27:25 (GMT) |
commit | 63f2cd32fb5f8541636f47cc4c7c53cf8284851f (patch) | |
tree | d8e66fde55f70332fd495907d529996e9568038b /Documentation/networking | |
parent | 47d2261a3fa71cde24263559a4219a25e50d8c89 (diff) | |
parent | 2acf1c25b979aaae983bfd7c0c4dd04b31ccfc01 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-63f2cd32fb5f8541636f47cc4c7c53cf8284851f.tar.xz |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.12.y' into sdk-v1.6.x
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/mmc/card/block.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | 10 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index a46d785..7d8dc93 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -588,9 +588,6 @@ tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER typical pfifo_fast qdiscs. tcp_limit_output_bytes limits the number of bytes on qdisc or device to reduce artificial RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat. - Note: For GSO/TSO enabled flows, we try to have at least two - packets in flight. Reducing tcp_limit_output_bytes might also - reduce the size of individual GSO packet (64KB being the max) Default: 131072 tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index c012236..8e48e3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ Transmission process is similar to capture as shown below. [shutdown] close() --------> destruction of the transmission socket and deallocation of all associated resources. +Socket creation and destruction is also straight forward, and is done +the same way as in capturing described in the previous paragraph: + + int fd = socket(PF_PACKET, mode, 0); + +The protocol can optionally be 0 in case we only want to transmit +via this socket, which avoids an expensive call to packet_rcv(). +In this case, you also need to bind(2) the TX_RING with sll_protocol = 0 +set. Otherwise, htons(ETH_P_ALL) or any other protocol, for example. + Binding the socket to your network interface is mandatory (with zero copy) to know the header size of frames used in the circular buffer. |