netdev - Re: [PATCH] HTB updates class's bstats in one place

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Message-Id: <20081029.112215.33710480.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:22:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, xiaosuo@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HTB updates class's bstats in one place

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:33:25 +0100

> Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > On the other hand, it seems with shaping qdiscs they are more useful
> > to query dequeue rates.
> 
> Only for purely informational purposes, for policing you'd want to
> use arrival rates. Since there are no users of estimators in the kernel
> besides policers (which use seperate ones), the point is not terribly
> important. But I would prefer to not start introducing (or extending)
> inconsistencies among qdisc implementations here, that will only make
> it harder in case someone finally implements something useful with
> estimators.

I agree with Patrick %100
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