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authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>2008-09-13 03:30:20 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-09-13 03:30:20 +0400
commitca9b0e27e072be4cef2f5f0cbc0b0fd94eae3520 (patch)
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downloadlinux-ca9b0e27e072be4cef2f5f0cbc0b0fd94eae3520.tar.xz
pkt_action: add new action skbedit
This new action will have the ability to change the priority and/or queue_mapping fields on an sk_buff. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt b/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt
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@@ -66,7 +66,14 @@ band 3 => queue 3
Traffic will begin flowing through each queue if your base device has either
the default simple_tx_hash or a custom netdev->select_queue() defined.
-The behavior of tc filters remains the same.
+The behavior of tc filters remains the same. However a new tc action,
+skbedit, has been added. Assuming you wanted to route all traffic to a
+specific host, for example 192.168.0.3, though a specific queue you could use
+this action and establish a filter such as:
+
+tc filter add dev eth0 parent 1: protocol ip prio 1 u32 \
+ match ip dst 192.168.0.3 \
+ action skbedit queue_mapping 3
Author: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Original Author: Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr. <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>