From 6a2e9b738cb5c929df73b6acabdd8f9a4e9a0416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:13:56 -0700 Subject: [NET]: move config options out to individual protocols Move the protocol specific config options out to the specific protocols. With this change net/Kconfig now starts to become readable and serve as a good basis for further re-structuring. The menu structure is left almost intact, except that indention is fixed in most cases. Most visible are the INET changes where several "depends on INET" are replaced with a single ifdef INET / endif pair. Several new files were created to accomplish this change - they are small but serve the purpose that config options are now distributed out where they belongs. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/sched/Kconfig | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/sched/Kconfig') diff --git a/net/sched/Kconfig b/net/sched/Kconfig index 7bac249258e..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 -- cgit v1.2.3