Re: RFC/PATCH capture qdisc requeue event in stats

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:18 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:10:09 -0700
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 13:13 -0400, jamal wrote:
> > > 
> > > The requeue event is useful in finding out when a device is overloaded
> > > on the egress (bus or bandwidth).
> > > Atached patch introduces this. I would have used the overlimit bits
> > > but at the moment thats being used for different semantical reasons.
> > > I have not done extensive testing on it. 
> > > 
> > > Opinions welcome - If all is good, Dave please apply.
> > 
> > Dave, what happened to this?  I put the stuff into iproute2 but the
> > requeue stat never made it into 2.6.  Is it a bad idea?
> 
> Yes, API breaker.

Well it seems to work for me:
          kernel
        New     Old
tc New  Ok      Ok(0)
   Old  Ok(0)   Ok

Because tc correctly handles the returned TLV size.