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| author | bjk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-09-24 15:02:31 +0000 |
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| committer | bjk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-09-24 15:02:31 +0000 |
| commit | 242674e06d95bbf951307203f5f4d963efc7c39e (patch) | |
| tree | 2f043070bfcd6e336515a0fb27ffd0b8a61af8e3 /share | |
| parent | f9e460eaf42daa31f89829f35e4865a8a0e66728 (diff) | |
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Minor man page cleanup -- fix grammar, markup fixes, and start each
sentence on a new line.
Approved by: hrs (mentor)
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/vale.4 | 17 |
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). |
