Hi Kevin,

> On Jun 1, 2016, at 13:40 , Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Gentlemen,
> 
> Two pull requests https://github.com/dtaht/sch_cake/pull/26  & 
> https://github.com/dtaht/tc-adv/pull/11
> 
> These drop the collection of last packet's length for stats purposes.
> 
> I've not dropped maxlen as I have personally found that *incredibly* useful 
> in working out what overheads linux has already accounted for on a variety of 
> connections.  It is also a useful indicator of GSO/GRO activity.

        I fully concur overhead deduction is hard any piece of information can 
help, also I note that fq_codel reports the same and I believe we all agree 
that Eric Dumazet knows what he is doing ;)

Best Regards
        Sebastian

> 
> Not updating another variable (memory write) for each packet may help cake's 
> CPU usage a little.
> 
> Done in a backwards compatible way for tc.
> 
> Please ACK/NACK as you see fit.
> 
> Kevin
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