net: add doc for ip_early_demux sysctl

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / networking / ip-sysctl.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9cea5d3b3c50510835182ef27052ab7396af7e85..36e5a402ed0ee32eabb532d7135db0df39619558 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -685,6 +685,15 @@ ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
        occurs.
        Default: 0
 
+ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
+       Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
+       certain kinds of local sockets.  Currently we only do this
+       for established TCP sockets.
+
+       It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
+       reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
+       Default: 1
+
 icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
        If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
        requests sent to it.