[Cake] Cake parameter anomaly?

[Dave Taht]

active_flows was a parameter that was in one version or another that
was exposed to the API. It was very useful and interesting.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
<kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> In pkt_sched.h we see an enumeration for 'TCA_CAKE_ACTIVE_FLOWS':
>
> /* CAKE */
> enum {
>         TCA_CAKE_UNSPEC,
>         TCA_CAKE_BASE_RATE,
>         TCA_CAKE_DIFFSERV_MODE,
>         TCA_CAKE_ATM,
>         TCA_CAKE_FLOW_MODE,
>         TCA_CAKE_OVERHEAD,
>         TCA_CAKE_ACTIVE_FLOWS,
>         TCA_CAKE_RTT,
>         TCA_CAKE_TARGET,
>         __TCA_CAKE_MAX
> };
> #define TCA_CAKE_MAX    (__TCA_CAKE_MAX - 1)
>
> These enumerations are normally used for passing options from tc into
> the cake module, but at the present time, nowhere in either cake or tc
> can I see use of 'ACTIVE_FLOWS'.  It's not read as an input into cake,
> nor is it sent out of cake back to tc via the nla_policy.
>
> Is this a 'typo' from when bulk/sparse flows reporting was put into the
> stats, or is it some as yet unimplemented feature?
>
> I've meant to ask about this before but it sort of got lost.
>
> Kevin
>
>
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