netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] net_sched: Add accessor function for packet length for qdiscs

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Message-ID: <20080730121921.GC6362@ff.dom.local>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:19:21 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] net_sched: Add accessor function for packet
	length for qdiscs

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:40:22 +0200
>>
>>> The reason why it translates it at all seems to be to not increase
>>> the drops counter. Within a single qdisc this could be avoided by
>>> other means easily, upper qdiscs would still increase the counter
>>> when we return anything besides NET_XMIT_SUCCESS though.
>>>
>>> This means we need a new NET_XMIT return value to indicate this to
>>> the upper qdiscs. So I'd suggest to introduce NET_XMIT_STOLEN,
>>> return that to upper qdiscs and translate it to NET_XMIT_SUCCESS
>>> in dev_queue_xmit, similar to NET_XMIT_BYPASS.
>>
>> Maybe these NET_XMIT_* values being passed around should be a set of
>> bits.
>>
>> They could be composed of base meanings, combined with specific
>> attributes.
>>
>> So you could say "NET_XMIT_DROP | __NET_XMIT_NO_DROP_COUNT"
>>
>> The attributes get masked out by the top-level ->enqueue() caller,
>> such that the base meanings are the only thing that make their
>> way up into the stack.
>>
>> If it's only about communication within the qdisc tree, let's
>> simply code it that way.
>
> Thats a good suggestion. I think this should work.
>

Yes, very nice! (I guess I can look at this more...)

Jarek P.
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