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pktgen: remove obsolete "max_before_softirq" from pktgen doc
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And cleanup some whitespaces in pktgen.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored and David S. Miller committed May 23, 2015
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HOWTO for the linux packet generator
HOWTO for the linux packet generator
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Enable CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN to compile and build pktgen either in-kernel
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Viewing threads
===============
/proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
Name: kpktgend_0 max_before_softirq: 10000
Running:
Stopped: eth1
Result: OK: max_before_softirq=10000
/proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
Running:
Stopped: eth1
Result: OK: add_device=eth1

Most important are the devices assigned to the thread. Note that a
device can only belong to one thread.
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holds running statistics. The Result is printed after a run or after
interruption. Example:

/proc/net/pktgen/eth1
/proc/net/pktgen/eth1

Params: count 10000000 min_pkt_size: 60 max_pkt_size: 60
frags: 0 delay: 0 clone_skb: 1000000 ifname: eth1
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To select queue 1 of a given device,
use queue_map_min=1 and queue_map_max=1

pgset "src_mac_count 1" Sets the number of MACs we'll range through.
pgset "src_mac_count 1" Sets the number of MACs we'll range through.
The 'minimum' MAC is what you set with srcmac.

pgset "dst_mac_count 1" Sets the number of MACs we'll range through.
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add_device
rem_device_all
max_before_softirq


** Device commands:
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src_mac_count
dst_mac_count

pkt_size
pkt_size
min_pkt_size
max_pkt_size

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