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authorNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>2013-11-05 16:51:42 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-11-08 00:10:21 +0400
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bonding: document the new packets_per_slave option
Add new documentation for the packets_per_slave option available for balance-rr mode. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -639,6 +639,15 @@ num_unsol_na
are generated by the ipv4 and ipv6 code and the numbers of
repetitions cannot be set independently.
+packets_per_slave
+
+ Specify the number of packets to transmit through a slave before
+ moving to the next one. When set to 0 then a slave is chosen at
+ random.
+
+ The valid range is 0 - 65535; the default value is 1. This option
+ has effect only in balance-rr mode.
+
primary
A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the