The patch below introduces special thresholds to keep root node in the trie
large. This gives a flatter tree at the cost of a modest memory increase.
Overall it seems to be gain and this was also proposed by one the authors
of the paper in recent a seminar.
Main table after loading 123 k routes.
Aver depth: 3.30
Max depth: 9
Root-node size 12 bits
Total size: 4044 kB
With the patch:
Aver depth: 2.78
Max depth: 8
Root-node size 15 bits
Total size: 4150 kB
An increase of 8-10% was seen in forwading performance for an rDoS attack.
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
e6308be85a