Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266108AbUFPDmV (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:42:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266113AbUFPDmV (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:42:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:16321 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266108AbUFPDlp (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:41:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:19:12 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: bert hubert Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [DOCUMENTATION PATCH] Missing net sysctls, some fixed, rest flagged Message-Id: <20040615201912.691ffe35.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040609175242.GA13875@outpost.ds9a.nl> References: <20040609175242.GA13875@outpost.ds9a.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4836 Lines: 149 Looks fine, I applied it with some minor changes as follows: # This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch. # # ChangeSet # 2004/06/15 20:20:25-07:00 ahu@ds9a.nl # [NET]: Update some sysctl documentation. # # I ran the following (crappy) script: # ... # In /proc/sys/ and found a host of undocumented sysctls. This patch documents # a number of them, and at least mentions the rest as 'TODO'. Please verify my # code-inspired documentation before applying! # # Signed-off-by: Bert Hubert # Signed-off-by: David S. Miller # # Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt # 2004/06/15 20:19:32-07:00 ahu@ds9a.nl +57 -0 # [NET]: Update some sysctl documentation. # # I ran the following (crappy) script: # ... # In /proc/sys/ and found a host of undocumented sysctls. This patch documents # a number of them, and at least mentions the rest as 'TODO'. Please verify my # code-inspired documentation before applying! # # Signed-off-by: Bert Hubert # Signed-off-by: David S. Miller # # Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt # 2004/06/15 20:19:32-07:00 ahu@ds9a.nl +2 -1 # [NET]: Update some sysctl documentation. # # I ran the following (crappy) script: # ... # In /proc/sys/ and found a host of undocumented sysctls. This patch documents # a number of them, and at least mentions the rest as 'TODO'. Please verify my # code-inspired documentation before applying! # # Signed-off-by: Bert Hubert # Signed-off-by: David S. Miller # diff -Nru a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2004-06-15 20:20:56 -07:00 +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2004-06-15 20:20:56 -07:00 @@ -1640,7 +1640,8 @@ Writing to this file results in a flush of the routing cache. -gc_elastic, gc_interval, gc_min_interval, gc_tresh, gc_timeout +gc_elasticity, gc_interval, gc_min_interval, gc_tresh, gc_timeout, +gc_thresh, gc_thresh1, gc_thresh2, gc_thresh3 -------------------------------------------------------------- Values to control the frequency and behavior of the garbage collection diff -Nru a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 2004-06-15 20:20:56 -07:00 +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 2004-06-15 20:20:56 -07:00 @@ -17,6 +17,16 @@ Disable Path MTU Discovery. default FALSE +min_pmtu - INTEGER + default 562 - minimum discovered Path MTU + +mtu_expires - INTEGER + Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept. + +min_adv_mss - INTEGER + The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will + never be lower than this setting. + IP Fragmentation: ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER @@ -345,6 +355,19 @@ conections. Default: 7 + +tcp_frto - BOOLEAN + Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission + timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments + where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference + rather than intermediate router congestion. + +somaxconn - INTEGER + Limit of TCP listen backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN. + Defaults to 128 + +IP Variables: + ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to choose the local port. The first number is the first, the @@ -586,6 +609,19 @@ The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used when ARP request is received on the {interface} +app_solicit - INTEGER + The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon + via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see + mcast_solicit). Defaults to 0. + +disable_policy - BOOLEAN + Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface + +disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN + Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy + + + tag - INTEGER Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required. Default value is 0. @@ -803,5 +839,26 @@ 0 : disable this. Default: 1 + +UNDOCUMENTED: + +dev_weight FIXME +discovery_slots FIXME +discovery_timeout FIXME +fast_poll_increase FIXME +ip6_queue_maxlen FIXME +lap_keepalive_time FIXME +lo_cong FIXME +max_baud_rate FIXME +max_dgram_qlen FIXME +max_noreply_time FIXME +max_tx_data_size FIXME +max_tx_window FIXME +min_tx_turn_time FIXME +mod_cong FIXME +no_cong FIXME +no_cong_thresh FIXME +slot_timeout FIXME +warn_noreply_time FIXME $Id: ip-sysctl.txt,v 1.20 2001/12/13 09:00:18 davem Exp $ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/