From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Graf Subject: [PATCHSET 0/8] PKT_SCHED: Use gnet_stats for actions and policer Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:58:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20041103215816.GA12289@postel.suug.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, hadi@cyberus.ca Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Dave, This is the last patchset in my attempt to clean up traffic control statistics. It converts the action and policer code to the gnet_stats API. I decided to not provide backward compatibility for action statistics and introduce a new TLV type TCA_ACT_STATS for them in order to get some consistency and be prepared if we ever introduce statistics to classifiers. This was approved by Jamal. Shall I mark the old estimator and statistic API as __deprecated or remove it right away? Cheers