On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:13 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > This seems to be due to be caused by act_mirred returning TC_ACT_STOLEN, > which is translated to NET_XMIT_SUCCESS within prio, causing HTB to > increase the q.qlen counter and activating the class despite no packet > beeing queued. > > Jamal, we can't return NET_XMIT_SUCCESS unless we've really queued the > packet. I can't remeber the reason why this is done, could you remind > me?
IIRC, It had to do with not confusing TCP to try and retransmit. I can go back and look at my notes to be certain. At one point i posted those notes, it maybe time to add them to the kernel code or doc somewhere. cheers, jamal PS:- i may a little slow in responding for the next few hours. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
