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docs: networking: convert fib_trie.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header; - adjust title markup; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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LC-trie implementation notes.
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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============================
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LC-trie implementation notes
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============================
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Node types
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leaf
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leaf
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An end node with data. This has a copy of the relevant key, along
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with 'hlist' with routing table entries sorted by prefix length.
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See struct leaf and struct leaf_info.
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A few concepts explained
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Bits (tnode)
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Bits (tnode)
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The number of bits in the key segment used for indexing into the
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child array - the "child index". See Level Compression.
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Path Compression / skipped bits
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Any given tnode is linked to from the child array of its parent, using
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a segment of the key specified by the parent's "pos" and "bits"
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a segment of the key specified by the parent's "pos" and "bits"
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In certain cases, this tnode's own "pos" will not be immediately
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adjacent to the parent (pos+bits), but there will be some bits
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in the key skipped over because they represent a single path with no
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Comments
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We have tried to keep the structure of the code as close to fib_hash as
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possible to allow verification and help up reviewing.
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We have tried to keep the structure of the code as close to fib_hash as
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possible to allow verification and help up reviewing.
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fib_find_node()
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A good start for understanding this code. This function implements a
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dns_resolver
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driver
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eql
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fib_trie
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.. only:: subproject and html
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