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bonding: document the new packets_per_slave option

Add new documentation for the packets_per_slave option available
for balance-rr mode.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Nikolay Aleksandrov 11 years ago
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Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

@@ -639,6 +639,15 @@ num_unsol_na
 	are generated by the ipv4 and ipv6 code and the numbers of
 	are generated by the ipv4 and ipv6 code and the numbers of
 	repetitions cannot be set independently.
 	repetitions cannot be set independently.
 
 
+packets_per_slave
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+	Specify the number of packets to transmit through a slave before
+	moving to the next one. When set to 0 then a slave is chosen at
+	random.
+
+	The valid range is 0 - 65535; the default value is 1. This option
+	has effect only in balance-rr mode.
+
 primary
 primary
 
 
 	A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the
 	A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the