[PATCH 5/5] doc: correct typos in traffic management guide
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Jan 16 22:29:36 CET 2026
Two documentation issues corrected:
- Remove errant asterisk from "Head Drop*"
- Remove duplicate phrase in WRED algorithm description
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/traffic_management.rst | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/traffic_management.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/traffic_management.rst
index c356791a45..086eb9d3af 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/traffic_management.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/traffic_management.rst
@@ -109,15 +109,14 @@ They are made available for every leaf node in the hierarchy, subject to
the specific implementation supporting them.
On request of writing a new packet into the current queue while the queue is
full, the Tail Drop algorithm drops the new packet while leaving the queue
-unmodified, as opposed to the Head Drop* algorithm, which drops the packet
+unmodified, as opposed to the Head Drop algorithm, which drops the packet
at the head of the queue (the oldest packet waiting in the queue) and admits
the new packet at the tail of the queue.
The Random Early Detection (RED) algorithm works by proactively dropping more
and more input packets as the queue occupancy builds up. When the queue is full
or almost full, RED effectively works as Tail Drop. The Weighted RED (WRED)
-algorithm uses a separate set of RED thresholds for each packet color and uses
-separate set of RED thresholds for each packet color.
+algorithm uses a separate set of RED thresholds for each packet color.
Each hierarchy leaf node with WRED enabled as its congestion management mode
has zero or one private WRED context (only one leaf node using it) and/or zero,
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