Name

gen_new_estimator — create a new rate estimator

Synopsis

int gen_new_estimator (struct gnet_stats_basic *  bstats,
 struct gnet_stats_rate_est *  rate_est,
 spinlock_t *  stats_lock,
 struct nlattr *  opt);

Arguments

bstats

basic statistics

rate_est

rate estimator statistics

stats_lock

statistics lock

opt

rate estimator configuration TLV

Description

Creates a new rate estimator with bstats as source and rate_est as destination. A new timer with the interval specified in the configuration TLV is created. Upon each interval, the latest statistics will be read from bstats and the estimated rate will be stored in rate_est with the statistics lock grabed during this period.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code.

NOTE

Called under rtnl_mutex