Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: sched: add other statistics when calling qdisc_drop()

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Aug 30 2022 - 00:49:01 EST


On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 11:16:53 +0800 shaozhengchao wrote:
> On 2022/8/27 10:40, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:29:40 +0800 Zhengchao Shao wrote:
> >> According to the description, "other" should be added when calling
> >> qdisc_drop() to discard packets.
> >
> > The fact that an old copy & pasted comment says something is not
> > in itself a sufficient justification to make code changes.
> >
> > qdisc_drop() already counts drops, duplicating the same information
> > in another place seems like a waste of CPU cycles.
>
> Hi Jakub:
> Thank you for your reply. It seems more appropriate to delete the other
> variable, if it is unused?

Yes, removing it SGTM.