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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-06-24 20:50:53 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-06-24 20:50:53 -0400
commitbb298ca3ce92574d57c4e49b329421425ea7d279 (patch)
treeed45f9ece02a50e7c1adf78ca3fb2a53b0f0314a /net
parentf7704347a74fceaf79c89f8b8dbdd0111013e4d6 (diff)
[IPV4]: Move FIB lookup algorithm choice under IP_ADVANCED_ROUTING
Most users need not be concerned with a complex choice of what FIB lookup algorithm to use. So give them the safe default of IP_FIB_HASH if IP_ADVANCED_ROUTING is disabled. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/Kconfig64
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index 690e88ba2484..7bcfb84126d1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -1,32 +1,6 @@
1# 1#
2# IP configuration 2# IP configuration
3# 3#
4choice
5 prompt "Choose IP: FIB lookup"
6 depends on INET
7 default IP_FIB_HASH
8
9config IP_FIB_HASH
10 bool "FIB_HASH"
11 ---help---
12 Current FIB is very proven and good enough for most users.
13
14config IP_FIB_TRIE
15 bool "FIB_TRIE"
16 ---help---
17 Use new experimental LC-trie as FIB lookup algoritm.
18 This improves lookup performance
19
20 LC-trie is described in:
21
22 IP-address lookup using LC-tries. Stefan Nilsson and Gunnar Karlsson
23 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 17(6):1083-1092, June 1999
24 An experimental study of compression methods for dynamic tries
25 Stefan Nilsson and Matti Tikkanen. Algorithmica, 33(1):19-33, 2002.
26 http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/dyntrie2/
27
28endchoice
29
30config IP_MULTICAST 4config IP_MULTICAST
31 bool "IP: multicasting" 5 bool "IP: multicasting"
32 depends on INET 6 depends on INET
@@ -79,6 +53,44 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
79 53
80 If unsure, say N here. 54 If unsure, say N here.
81 55
56choice
57 prompt "Choose IP: FIB lookup algorithm (choose FIB_HASH if unsure)"
58 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
59 default IP_FIB_HASH
60
61config IP_FIB_HASH
62 bool "FIB_HASH"
63 ---help---
64 Current FIB is very proven and good enough for most users.
65
66config IP_FIB_TRIE
67 bool "FIB_TRIE"
68 ---help---
69 Use new experimental LC-trie as FIB lookup algoritm.
70 This improves lookup performance if you have a large
71 number of routes.
72
73 LC-trie is a longest matching prefix lookup algorithm which
74 performs better than FIB_HASH for large routing tables.
75 But, it consumes more memory and is more complex.
76
77 LC-trie is described in:
78
79 IP-address lookup using LC-tries. Stefan Nilsson and Gunnar Karlsson
80 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 17(6):1083-1092, June 1999
81 An experimental study of compression methods for dynamic tries
82 Stefan Nilsson and Matti Tikkanen. Algorithmica, 33(1):19-33, 2002.
83 http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/dyntrie2/
84
85endchoice
86
87# If the user does not enable advanced routing, he gets the safe
88# default of the fib-hash algorithm.
89config IP_FIB_HASH
90 bool
91 depends on !IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
92 default y
93
82config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 94config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
83 bool "IP: policy routing" 95 bool "IP: policy routing"
84 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER 96 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER