Hi,
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 11:59:55AM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 09:04:54AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:32:52 -0700
> > Iskren Chernev <isk...@imo.im> wrote:
> >
> > > From 416f45b62f33017d19a9b14e7b0179807c993cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Iskren Chernev <isk...@imo.im>
> > > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:08:54 -0700
> > > Subject: [PATCH bug-fix] iproute: fix documentation for ip rule scan order
> > >
> > > ---
> > > man/man8/ip-rule.8 | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/man/man8/ip-rule.8 b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
> > > index 1774ae3..3508d80 100644
> > > --- a/man/man8/ip-rule.8
> > > +++ b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
> > > @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Each policy routing rule consists of a
> > > .B selector
> > > and an
> > > .B action predicate.
> > > -The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority. The selector
> > > +The RPDB is scanned in order of increasing priority. The selector
> > > of each rule is applied to {source address, destination address,
> > > incoming
> > > interface, tos, fwmark} and, if the selector matches the packet,
> > > the action is performed. The action predicate may return with success.
> > > --
> > > 2.4.5
> >
> > Applied
>
> I'm sorry I didn't notice before but this just reverts the change done
> by commit 49572501664d ("iproute2: clarification of various man8 pages").
> IMHO the problem is that both versions are equally confusing as the word
> "priority" can be understood in two different senses.
>
> How about more explicit formulation, e.g.
>
> ... in order of decreasing logical priority (i.e. increasing numeric
> values).
>
> Would that be better?
Looks like the real issue is missing definition of priority. What about
this:
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-rule.8 b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
index 3508d8090fd2c..13fe9f7f892ee 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-rule.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Each policy routing rule consists of a
.B selector
and an
.B action predicate.
-The RPDB is scanned in order of increasing priority. The selector
+The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority. The selector
of each rule is applied to {source address, destination address, incoming
interface, tos, fwmark} and, if the selector matches the packet,
the action is performed. The action predicate may return with success.
@@ -221,8 +221,10 @@ value to match.
.TP
.BI priority " PREFERENCE"
-the priority of this rule. Each rule should have an explicitly
-set
+the priority of this rule.
+.I PREFERENCE
+is an unsigned integer value, higher number means lower priority. Each rule
+should have an explicitly set
.I unique
priority value.
The options preference and order are synonyms with priority.
