Stephen Hemminger wrote:

I'm thinking of changing enqueue (and maybe later dequeue) API to decouple
the qlen assumption.

Either:
	rc = qdisc->enqueue(skb, qdisc, &my->qlen)
or add NET_XMIT_DUPPED
	rc = qdisc->enqueue(skb, qdisc);
	if (rc < NET_XMIT_SUCCESS) {
		++my->dropped;
	} else {
		my->qlen++;
		if (rc == NET_XMIT_DUPPED)
			my->qlen++;
}

To be frank, I don't like either one. Both have the same problem
wrt. HFSC, the first solution requires changes all over the place,
the second one is unflexible and also requires lots of changes. I
don't see what could benefit from this API change besides netem,
so I'd vote to go with my proposed solution: store the parent
pointers in struct Qdisc, add code to walk up the tree and adjust
the qlen to netem, and fix up HFSC.

Regards
Patrick