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Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 142 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig index 6d3e8b1bd1f2..df5386885a90 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ # config IP_MULTICAST bool "IP: multicasting" - depends on INET help This is code for addressing several networked computers at once, enlarging your kernel by about 2 KB. You need multicasting if you @@ -17,7 +16,6 @@ config IP_MULTICAST config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER bool "IP: advanced router" - depends on INET ---help--- If you intend to run your Linux box mostly as a router, i.e. as a computer that forwards and redistributes network packets, say Y; you @@ -53,6 +51,44 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER If unsure, say N here. +choice + prompt "Choose IP: FIB lookup algorithm (choose FIB_HASH if unsure)" + depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER + default IP_FIB_HASH + +config IP_FIB_HASH + bool "FIB_HASH" + ---help--- + Current FIB is very proven and good enough for most users. + +config IP_FIB_TRIE + bool "FIB_TRIE" + ---help--- + Use new experimental LC-trie as FIB lookup algoritm. + This improves lookup performance if you have a large + number of routes. + + LC-trie is a longest matching prefix lookup algorithm which + performs better than FIB_HASH for large routing tables. + But, it consumes more memory and is more complex. + + LC-trie is described in: + + IP-address lookup using LC-tries. Stefan Nilsson and Gunnar Karlsson + IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 17(6):1083-1092, June 1999 + An experimental study of compression methods for dynamic tries + Stefan Nilsson and Matti Tikkanen. Algorithmica, 33(1):19-33, 2002. + http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/dyntrie2/ + +endchoice + +# If the user does not enable advanced routing, he gets the safe +# default of the fib-hash algorithm. +config IP_FIB_HASH + bool + depends on !IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER + default y + config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES bool "IP: policy routing" depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER @@ -145,7 +181,6 @@ config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE config IP_PNP bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration" - depends on INET help This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information @@ -204,7 +239,6 @@ config IP_PNP_RARP # bool ' IP: ARP support' CONFIG_IP_PNP_ARP config NET_IPIP tristate "IP: tunneling" - depends on INET select INET_TUNNEL ---help--- Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within @@ -222,7 +256,6 @@ config NET_IPIP config NET_IPGRE tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP" - depends on INET select XFRM help Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within @@ -281,7 +314,7 @@ config IP_PIMSM_V2 config ARPD bool "IP: ARP daemon support (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL + depends on EXPERIMENTAL ---help--- Normally, the kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP addresses to hardware addresses on the local network, so that @@ -306,7 +339,6 @@ config ARPD config SYN_COOKIES bool "IP: TCP syncookie support (disabled per default)" - depends on INET ---help--- Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote @@ -343,7 +375,6 @@ config SYN_COOKIES config INET_AH tristate "IP: AH transformation" - depends on INET select XFRM select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_HMAC @@ -356,7 +387,6 @@ config INET_AH config INET_ESP tristate "IP: ESP transformation" - depends on INET select XFRM select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_HMAC @@ -370,7 +400,6 @@ config INET_ESP config INET_IPCOMP tristate "IP: IPComp transformation" - depends on INET select XFRM select INET_TUNNEL select CRYPTO @@ -383,7 +412,6 @@ config INET_IPCOMP config INET_TUNNEL tristate "IP: tunnel transformation" - depends on INET select XFRM ---help--- Support for generic IP tunnel transformation, which is required by @@ -393,7 +421,6 @@ config INET_TUNNEL config IP_TCPDIAG tristate "IP: TCP socket monitoring interface" - depends on INET default y ---help--- Support for TCP socket monitoring interface used by native Linux @@ -407,5 +434,108 @@ config IP_TCPDIAG config IP_TCPDIAG_IPV6 def_bool (IP_TCPDIAG=y && IPV6=y) || (IP_TCPDIAG=m && IPV6) +config TCP_CONG_ADVANCED + bool "TCP: advanced congestion control" + ---help--- + Support for selection of various TCP congestion control + modules. + + Nearly all users can safely say no here, and a safe default + selection will be made (BIC-TCP with new Reno as a fallback). + + If unsure, say N. + +# TCP Reno is builtin (required as fallback) +menu "TCP congestion control" + depends on TCP_CONG_ADVANCED + +config TCP_CONG_BIC + tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control" + default y + ---help--- + BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT + fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and + bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes + called additive increase and binary search increase. When the + congestion window is large, additive increase with a large + increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good + scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search + increase provides TCP friendliness. + See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/ + +config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD + tristate "TCP Westwood+" + default m + ---help--- + TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno + protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion + control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set + congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion + episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a + slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into + account the bandwidth used at the time congestion is experienced. + TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in + wired networks and throughput over wireless links. + +config TCP_CONG_HTCP + tristate "H-TCP" + default m + ---help--- + H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno + protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP + congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a + modeswitch to change the alpha and beta parameters of TCP Reno + based on network conditions and in a way so as to be fair with + other Reno and H-TCP flows. + +config TCP_CONG_HSTCP + tristate "High Speed TCP" + depends on EXPERIMENTAL + default n + ---help--- + Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control. + A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use + with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to + increase the congestion window by when an ACK is received. + For more detail see http://www.icir.org/floyd/hstcp.html + +config TCP_CONG_HYBLA + tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm" + depends on EXPERIMENTAL + default n + ---help--- + TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of + long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are + involved, expecially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal + terrestrial connections. + +config TCP_CONG_VEGAS + tristate "TCP Vegas" + depends on EXPERIMENTAL + default n + ---help--- + TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates + the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas + adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion + window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is + not as aggressive as TCP Reno. + +config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE + tristate "Scalable TCP" + depends on EXPERIMENTAL + default n + ---help--- + Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a + MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling + properties, though is known to have fairness issues. + See http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ctk21/scalable/ + +endmenu + +config TCP_CONG_BIC + tristate + depends on !TCP_CONG_ADVANCED + default y + source "net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig" |
