X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=net%2Fsched%2FKconfig;h=59d3e71f8b85296c820a0099010d50341d0135fb;hb=bdf242eeb0f69567fe43eba93889d80ecacbfe94;hp=95d9bc5d86215579e3707998cece8c93ac018ae3;hpb=d675c989ed2d4ba23dff615330b04371aea83534;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/net/sched/Kconfig b/net/sched/Kconfig index 95d9bc5d862..59d3e71f8b8 100644 --- a/net/sched/Kconfig +++ b/net/sched/Kconfig @@ -1,6 +1,43 @@ # # Traffic control configuration. # + +menuconfig NET_SCHED + bool "QoS and/or fair queueing" + ---help--- + When the kernel has several packets to send out over a network + device, it has to decide which ones to send first, which ones to + delay, and which ones to drop. This is the job of the packet + scheduler, and several different algorithms for how to do this + "fairly" have been proposed. + + If you say N here, you will get the standard packet scheduler, which + is a FIFO (first come, first served). If you say Y here, you will be + able to choose from among several alternative algorithms which can + then be attached to different network devices. This is useful for + example if some of your network devices are real time devices that + need a certain minimum data flow rate, or if you need to limit the + maximum data flow rate for traffic which matches specified criteria. + This code is considered to be experimental. + + To administer these schedulers, you'll need the user-level utilities + from the package iproute2+tc at . + That package also contains some documentation; for more, check out + . + + This Quality of Service (QoS) support will enable you to use + Differentiated Services (diffserv) and Resource Reservation Protocol + (RSVP) on your Linux router if you also say Y to "QoS support", + "Packet classifier API" and to some classifiers below. Documentation + and software is at . + + If you say Y here and to "/proc file system" below, you will be able + to read status information about packet schedulers from the file + /proc/net/psched. + + The available schedulers are listed in the following questions; you + can say Y to as many as you like. If unsure, say N now. + choice prompt "Packet scheduler clock source" depends on NET_SCHED @@ -452,10 +489,12 @@ config NET_EMATCH_META config NET_EMATCH_TEXT tristate "Textsearch" depends on NET_EMATCH + select TEXTSEARCH + select TEXTSEARCH_KMP + select TEXTSEARCH_FSM ---help--- Say Y here if you want to be ablt to classify packets based on - textsearch comparisons. Please select the appropriate textsearch - algorithms in the Library section. + textsearch comparisons. To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be called em_text.