Document quotas and new load-balance strategy.

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@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Options for both config file and command line:
 --fix-protocol      Do not redirect to a different getwork protocol (eg. stratum)
 --hotplug <arg>     Set hotplug check time to <arg> seconds (0=never default: 5) - only with libusb
 --kernel-path|-K <arg> Specify a path to where bitstream and kernel files are (default: "/usr/local/bin")
---load-balance      Change multipool strategy from failover to efficiency based balance
+--load-balance      Change multipool strategy from failover to quota based balance
 --log|-l <arg>      Interval in seconds between log output (default: 5)
 --lowmem            Minimise caching of shares for low memory applications
 --monitor|-m <arg>  Use custom pipe cmd for output messages
@@ -507,15 +507,57 @@ This strategy moves at user-defined intervals from one active pool to the next,
 skipping pools that are idle.
 
 LOAD BALANCE:
-This strategy sends work to all the pools to maintain optimum load. The most
+This strategy sends work to all the pools on a quota basis. By default, all
-efficient pools will tend to get a lot more shares. If any pool falls idle, the
+pools are allocated equal quotas unless specified with --quota. This
-rest will tend to take up the slack keeping the miner busy.
+apportioning of work is based on work handed out, not shares returned so is
+independent of difficulty targets or rejected shares. While a pool is disabled
+or dead, its quota is dropped until it is re-enabled. Quotas are forward
+looking, so if the quota is changed on the fly, it only affects future work.
+If all pools are set to zero quota or all pools with quota are dead, it will
+fall back to a failover mode. See quota below for more information.
 
 BALANCE:
 This strategy monitors the amount of difficulty 1 shares solved for each pool
 and uses it to try to end up doing the same amount of work for all pools.
 
 
+---
+QUOTAS
+
+The load-balance multipool strategy works off a quota based scheduler. The
+quotas handed out by default are equal, but the user is allowed so specify any
+arbitrary ratio of quotas. For example, if all the quota values add up to 100,
+each quota value will be a percentage, but if 2 pools are specified and pool0
+is given a quota of 1 and pool1 is given a quota of 9, pool0 will get 10% of
+the work and pool1 will get 90%. Quotas can be changed on the fly by the API,
+and do not act retrospectively. Setting a quota to zero will effectively
+disable that pool unless all other pools are disabled or dead. In that
+scenario, load-balance falls back to regular failover priority-based strategy.
+To specify quotas on the command line, pools should be specified with a
+semicolon separated --quota(or -U) entry instead of --url. Pools specified with
+--url are given a nominal quota value of 1 and entries can be mixed.
+
+For example:
+--url poola:porta -u usernamea -p passa --quota "2;poolb:portb" -u usernameb -p passb
+Will give poola 1/3 of the work and poolb 2/3 of the work.
+
+Writing configuration files with quotas is likewise supported. To use the above
+quotas in a configuration file they would be specified thus:
+
+"pools" : [
+        {
+                "url" : "poola:porta",
+                "user" : "usernamea",
+                "pass" : "passa"
+        },
+        {
+                "quota" : "2;poolb:portb",
+                "user" : "usernameb",
+                "pass" : "passb"
+        }
+]
+
+
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