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authorbjk <bjk@FreeBSD.org>2012-09-24 15:02:31 +0000
committerbjk <bjk@FreeBSD.org>2012-09-24 15:02:31 +0000
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Minor man page cleanup -- fix grammar, markup fixes, and start each
sentence on a new line. Approved by: hrs (mentor)
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/vale.417
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/vale.4 b/share/man/man4/vale.4
index 420db1e..a52b137 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/vale.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/vale.4
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a feature of the
-.Nm netmap
+.Xr netmap 4
module that implements multiple Virtual switches that can
be used to interconnect netmap clients, including traffic
sources and sinks, packet forwarders, userspace firewalls,
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ second (Mpps) per core with small frames, and about 70 Gbit/s
with 1500 byte frames.
.Sh OPERATION
.Nm
-dynamically creates switches and ports as client connect
+dynamically creates switches and ports as clients connect
to it using the
.Xr netmap 4
API.
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ indicates a specific switch (the colon is a separator),
and
.Pa port
indicates a port within the switch.
-Bridge and ports names are arbitrary strings, the only
+Bridge and port names are arbitrary strings, the only
constraint being that the full name must fit within 16
characters.
.Pp
@@ -77,13 +77,14 @@ See
for details on the API.
.Ss LIMITS
.Nm
-currently supports up to 4 switches, 16 ports per switch,
-1024 buffers per port. These hard limits will be
+currently supports up to 4 switches, 16 ports per switch, with
+1024 buffers per port.
+These hard limits will be
changed to sysctl variables in future releases.
.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
.Nm
uses the following sysctl variables to control operation:
-.Bl -tag -width 12
+.Bl -tag -width dev.netmap.verbose
.It dev.netmap.bridge
The maximum number of packets processed internally
in each iteration.
@@ -120,12 +121,12 @@ June 2012, http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/vale/
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
-switch has been designed and implemented in 2012 by
+switch was designed and implemented in 2012 by
.An Luigi Rizzo
and
.An Giuseppe Lettieri
at the Universita` di Pisa.
.Pp
.Nm
-has been funded by the European Commission within FP7 Projects
+was funded by the European Commission within FP7 Projects
CHANGE (257422) and OPENLAB (287581).
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