From 6ecd0198c0bc49413699b8177e247995e0234ac5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Lee Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 22:12:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] man: tc-htb.8: add missing class parameter quantum Add description for htb class parameter quantum. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Lee Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- man/man8/tc-htb.8 | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man8/tc-htb.8 b/man/man8/tc-htb.8 index 2bcb9c46..9accfecd 100644 --- a/man/man8/tc-htb.8 +++ b/man/man8/tc-htb.8 @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ bytes bytes .B ] [ prio priority +.B ] [ quantum +bytes .B ] .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -143,6 +145,17 @@ Amount of bytes that can be burst at 'infinite' speed, in other words, as fast as the interface can transmit them. For perfect evening out, should be equal to at most one average packet. Should be at least as high as the highest cburst of all children. +.TP +quantum bytes +Number of bytes to serve from this class before the scheduler moves to the next class. +Default value is +.B rate +divided by the qdisc +.B r2q +parameter. If specified, +.B r2q +is ignored. + .SH NOTES Due to Unix timing constraints, the maximum ceil rate is not infinite and may in fact be quite low. On Intel, there are 100 timer events per second, the maximum rate is that rate at which 'burst' bytes are sent each timer tick.