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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Replacing qdisc tc_stats with generic statistics to make it extendable
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:41:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006104143.0d5cbc81.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041005222149.GA17186@postel.suug.ch>

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:21:49 +0200
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> wrote:

> Since this is pretty major and will touch a lot of code I'd be interested
> if this is the right way to go and how to do it to make patch submission
> as easy as possible.
> Here would be my scenario on howto do it in several steps not breaking
> anything in between:
> Step 1: Use new generic networking statistics, update all qdiscs and
>         switch to new estimator. Doesn't break anything but must be
>         atomic.
> Step 2-N: Add dump_stats and update qdiscs one after each other.
> 
> Thoughts?

This sounds fine to me.  Don't be concerned about breaking binary-only
qdiscs :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-03 21:31 [PATCH 0/3] NET: Generic network statistics/estimator Thomas Graf
2004-10-03 21:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] NET: Generic network statistics API Thomas Graf
2004-10-03 21:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] NET: Generic rate estimator Thomas Graf
2004-10-03 23:14   ` David S. Miller
2004-10-03 23:36     ` Thomas Graf
2004-10-04  1:16       ` jamal
2004-10-04 12:53         ` Thomas Graf
2004-10-04 13:24           ` jamal
2004-10-04 14:15             ` Thomas Graf
2004-10-04 14:59               ` jamal
2004-10-04 15:29                 ` Thomas Graf
2004-10-04 19:30                 ` [RESEND PATCH " Thomas Graf
2004-10-04 20:07                   ` jamal
2004-10-04 20:20                     ` Thomas Graf
2004-10-03 23:57     ` [PATCH " Thomas Graf
2004-10-05 21:03       ` David S. Miller
2004-10-05 22:21         ` [RFC] Replacing qdisc tc_stats with generic statistics to make it extendable Thomas Graf
2004-10-06 17:41           ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-10-03 21:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] NET: Generic network statistics/estimator documentation Thomas Graf
2004-10-03 21:47 ` [PATCH 0/3] NET: Generic network statistics/estimator Thomas Graf
2004-10-03 22:23   ` David S. Miller
2004-10-03 22:34     ` jamal

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