[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v10 5/5] ice: Document txbalancing parameter

Tony Nguyen anthony.l.nguyen at intel.com
Fri Mar 17 17:18:21 UTC 2023



On 3/14/2023 3:25 AM, Michal Wilczynski wrote:
> New driver specific parameter 'txbalancing' was introduced.
> Describe parameter in the documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Wilczynski <michal.wilczynski at intel.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/networking/devlink/ice.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/ice.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/ice.rst
> index 10f282c2117c..6ffe230f71a5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/ice.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/ice.rst
> @@ -7,6 +7,23 @@ ice devlink support
>   This document describes the devlink features implemented by the ``ice``
>   device driver.
>   
> +Parameters
> +=============
> +
> +.. list-table:: Driver-specific parameters implemented
> +   :widths: 5 5 5 85
> +
> +   * - Name
> +     - Type
> +     - Mode
> +     - Description
> +   * - ``txbalancing``
> +     - Boolean
> +     - permanent
> +     - This parameter gives user flexibility to choose the 5-layer
> +       transmit scheduler topology which helps to smooth out the transmit
> +       performance.

I feel like there should be some explanation (here or in the driver 
documentation) of the difference/trade-off between 9 and 5 layer. Why 
would I ever want 9 layer?

> +
>   Info versions
>   =============
>   


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