Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/5] docs: netconsole: document rate limit feature

[Gustavo Luiz Duarte]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Describe the per-target token bucket and the two configfs files that
> drive it: ratelimit_interval_ms and ratelimit_burst.
>
> Spell out the two properties that are not obvious from the file names.
> The limit is accounted per message rather than per packet, so a message
> split into several ncfrag packets is never truncated by the bucket
> running dry halfway through.
>
> List both files in the target parameter table too, and qualify the rule
> underneath it. Only a disabled target can have its parameters updated,
> these two aside.
>
> Note in the message ID section that a message the bucket discards never
> reaches the counter, so those drops leave no gap in the IDs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@xxxxxxxxx>