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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/net.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt index 6294b5186ae5..809ab6efcc74 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt @@ -54,13 +54,15 @@ default_qdisc -------------- The default queuing discipline to use for network devices. This allows -overriding the default queue discipline of pfifo_fast with an -alternative. Since the default queuing discipline is created with the -no additional parameters so is best suited to queuing disciplines that -work well without configuration like stochastic fair queue (sfq), -CoDel (codel) or fair queue CoDel (fq_codel). Don't use queuing disciplines -like Hierarchical Token Bucket or Deficit Round Robin which require setting -up classes and bandwidths. +overriding the default of pfifo_fast with an alternative. Since the default +queuing discipline is created without additional parameters so is best suited +to queuing disciplines that work well without configuration like stochastic +fair queue (sfq), CoDel (codel) or fair queue CoDel (fq_codel). Don't use +queuing disciplines like Hierarchical Token Bucket or Deficit Round Robin +which require setting up classes and bandwidths. Note that physical multiqueue +interfaces still use mq as root qdisc, which in turn uses this default for its +leaves. Virtual devices (like e.g. lo or veth) ignore this setting and instead +default to noqueue. Default: pfifo_fast busy_read |