docs: networking: convert ipvs-sysctl.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- mark lists as such;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst

@@ -353,8 +353,8 @@ socket's buffer. It will not take effect unless PF_UNIX flag is specified.
 
 3. /proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings
 -------------------------------------
-Please see: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst and ipvs-sysctl.txt for
-descriptions of these entries.
+Please see: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst and
+Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries.
 
 
 4. Appletalk

Documentation/networking/index.rst

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ Contents:
    ip-sysctl
    ipv6
    ipvlan
+   ipvs-sysctl
 
 .. only::  subproject and html
 

Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt → Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst

+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===========
+IPvs-sysctl
+===========
+
 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/* Variables:
+==================================
 
 am_droprate - INTEGER
 	default 10
@@ -16,8 +23,8 @@ amemthresh - INTEGER
 	the strategy is disabled and the variable is  set  to 1.
 
 backup_only - BOOLEAN
-	0 - disabled (default)
-	not 0 - enabled
+	- 0 - disabled (default)
+	- not 0 - enabled
 
 	If set, disable the director function while the server is
 	in backup mode to avoid packet loops for DR/TUN methods.
@@ -44,8 +51,8 @@ conn_reuse_mode - INTEGER
 	real servers to a very busy cluster.
 
 conntrack - BOOLEAN
-	0 - disabled (default)
-	not 0 - enabled
+	- 0 - disabled (default)
+	- not 0 - enabled
 
 	If set, maintain connection tracking entries for
 	connections handled by IPVS.
@@ -61,8 +68,8 @@ conntrack - BOOLEAN
 	Only available when IPVS is compiled with CONFIG_IP_VS_NFCT enabled.
 
 cache_bypass - BOOLEAN
-        0 - disabled (default)
-        not 0 - enabled
+	- 0 - disabled (default)
+	- not 0 - enabled
 
 	If it is enabled, forward packets to the original destination
 	directly when no cache server is available and destination
@@ -70,19 +77,19 @@ cache_bypass - BOOLEAN
 	used in transparent web cache cluster.
 
 debug_level - INTEGER
-	0          - transmission error messages (default)
-	1          - non-fatal error messages
-	2          - configuration
-	3          - destination trash
-	4          - drop entry
-	5          - service lookup
-	6          - scheduling
-	7          - connection new/expire, lookup and synchronization
-	8          - state transition
-	9          - binding destination, template checks and applications
-	10         - IPVS packet transmission
-	11         - IPVS packet handling (ip_vs_in/ip_vs_out)
-	12 or more - packet traversal
+	- 0          - transmission error messages (default)
+	- 1          - non-fatal error messages
+	- 2          - configuration
+	- 3          - destination trash
+	- 4          - drop entry
+	- 5          - service lookup
+	- 6          - scheduling
+	- 7          - connection new/expire, lookup and synchronization
+	- 8          - state transition
+	- 9          - binding destination, template checks and applications
+	- 10         - IPVS packet transmission
+	- 11         - IPVS packet handling (ip_vs_in/ip_vs_out)
+	- 12 or more - packet traversal
 
 	Only available when IPVS is compiled with CONFIG_IP_VS_DEBUG enabled.
 
@@ -92,7 +99,7 @@ debug_level - INTEGER
 	the level.
 
 drop_entry - INTEGER
-        0  - disabled (default)
+	- 0  - disabled (default)
 
 	The drop_entry defense is to randomly drop entries in the
 	connection hash table, just in order to collect back some
@@ -110,7 +117,7 @@ drop_entry - INTEGER
 	1), and 3 means that that the strategy is always enabled.
 
 drop_packet - INTEGER
-        0  - disabled (default)
+	- 0  - disabled (default)
 
 	The drop_packet defense is designed to drop 1/rate packets
 	before forwarding them to real servers. If the rate is 1, then
@@ -124,8 +131,8 @@ drop_packet - INTEGER
 	is controlled by the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/am_droprate.
 
 expire_nodest_conn - BOOLEAN
-        0 - disabled (default)
-        not 0 - enabled
+	- 0 - disabled (default)
+	- not 0 - enabled
 
 	The default value is 0, the load balancer will silently drop
 	packets when its destination server is not available. It may
@@ -142,8 +149,8 @@ expire_nodest_conn - BOOLEAN
 	connections when its destination is not available.
 
 expire_quiescent_template - BOOLEAN
-	0 - disabled (default)
-	not 0 - enabled
+	- 0 - disabled (default)
+	- not 0 - enabled
 
 	When set to a non-zero value, the load balancer will expire
 	persistent templates when the destination server is quiescent.
@@ -158,8 +165,8 @@ expire_quiescent_template - BOOLEAN
 	connection and the destination server is quiescent.
 
 ignore_tunneled - BOOLEAN
-	0 - disabled (default)
-	not 0 - enabled
+	- 0 - disabled (default)
+	- not 0 - enabled
 
 	If set, ipvs will set the ipvs_property on all packets which are of
 	unrecognized protocols.  This prevents us from routing tunneled
@@ -168,23 +175,23 @@ ignore_tunneled - BOOLEAN
 	ipvs routing loops when ipvs is also acting as a real server).
 
 nat_icmp_send - BOOLEAN
-        0 - disabled (default)
-        not 0 - enabled
+	- 0 - disabled (default)
+	- not 0 - enabled
 
 	It controls sending icmp error messages (ICMP_DEST_UNREACH)
 	for VS/NAT when the load balancer receives packets from real
 	servers but the connection entries don't exist.
 
 pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
-	0 - disabled
-	not 0 - enabled (default)
+	- 0 - disabled
+	- not 0 - enabled (default)
 
 	By default, reject with FRAG_NEEDED all DF packets that exceed
 	the PMTU, irrespective of the forwarding method. For TUN method
 	the flag can be disabled to fragment such packets.
 
 secure_tcp - INTEGER
-        0  - disabled (default)
+	- 0  - disabled (default)
 
 	The secure_tcp defense is to use a more complicated TCP state
 	transition table. For VS/NAT, it also delays entering the
@@ -248,8 +255,8 @@ sync_ports - INTEGER
 	8848+sync_ports-1.
 
 snat_reroute - BOOLEAN
-	0 - disabled
-	not 0 - enabled (default)
+	- 0 - disabled
+	- not 0 - enabled (default)
 
 	If enabled, recalculate the route of SNATed packets from
 	realservers so that they are routed as if they originate from the
@@ -270,6 +277,7 @@ sync_persist_mode - INTEGER
 	Controls the synchronisation of connections when using persistence
 
 	0: All types of connections are synchronised
+
 	1: Attempt to reduce the synchronisation traffic depending on
 	the connection type. For persistent services avoid synchronisation
 	for normal connections, do it only for persistence templates.

MAINTAINERS

@@ -8934,7 +8934,7 @@ L:	lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/ipvs-next.git
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/ipvs.git
-F:	Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
+F:	Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst
 F:	include/net/ip_vs.h
 F:	include/uapi/linux/ip_vs.h
 F:	net/netfilter/ipvs/