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[iproute,6/8] man: tc-skbedit.8: Elaborate a bit on TX queues

Message ID 1458165384-900-7-git-send-email-phil@nwl.cc
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: stephen hemminger
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Phil Sutter March 16, 2016, 9:56 p.m. UTC 
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
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 man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 | 14 ++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8 b/man/man8/tc-skbedit.8
index b585a4d4253ba..c75d082148ac3 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/<interface>/queues
+with name
+.I tx-N
+(where
+.I N
+is the actual queue number).
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .BI queue_mapping " QUEUE_MAPPING"
@@ -40,6 +52,8 @@  Change the packet's firewall mark value.
 is an unsigned 32bit value in automatically detected format (i.e., prefix with
 .RB ' 0x '
 for hexadecimal interpretation, etc.).
+.SH EXAMPLES
+XXX: write me
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR tc (8),
 .BR tc-pedit (8)