From c73b621cfa480b039bf09dc732d7e224e14684ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phil Sutter Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:48:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] man: tc-skbedit.8: Elaborate a bit on TX queues Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 b/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 index b585a4d4..e6902960 100644 --- a/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 +++ b/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 @@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ The action allows to change a packet's associated meta data. It complements the .B pedit action, which in turn allows to change parts of the packet data itself. + +The most unique feature of +.B skbedit +is it's ability to decide over which queue of an interface with multiple +transmit queues the packet is to be sent out. The number of available transmit +queues is reflected by sysfs entries within +.I /sys/class/net//queues +with name +.I tx-N +(where +.I N +is the actual queue number). .SH OPTIONS .TP .BI queue_mapping " QUEUE_MAPPING"