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| author | Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com> | 2011-10-04 04:00:30 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-10-06 15:58:24 -0400 |
| commit | 186c6bbced722cfeff041d2a1264c95f5d042050 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a7c2b3b49111ab9e3b3ab8f7fdd4ec51fb661f3 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | b64b73d7d0c480f75684519c6134e79d50c1b341 (diff) | |
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net: fix typos in Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
The second hunk fixes rps_sock_flow_table but has to re-wrap the paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/scaling.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index 8ce7c30e7230..fe67b5c79f0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ applying a filter to each packet that assigns it to one of a small number of logical flows. Packets for each flow are steered to a separate receive queue, which in turn can be processed by separate CPUs. This mechanism is generally known as “Receive-side Scaling” (RSS). The goal of RSS and -the other scaling techniques to increase performance uniformly. +the other scaling techniques is to increase performance uniformly. Multi-queue distribution can also be used for traffic prioritization, but that is not the focus of these techniques. @@ -186,10 +186,10 @@ are steered using plain RPS. Multiple table entries may point to the same CPU. Indeed, with many flows and few CPUs, it is very likely that a single application thread handles flows with many different flow hashes. -rps_sock_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU for -flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. Each -table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg and -sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() +rps_sock_flow_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU +for flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. +Each table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg +and sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() and tcp_splice_read()). When the scheduler moves a thread to a new CPU while it has outstanding |