CLICK-DEVIRTUALIZE(1)

NAME
click-devirtualize - removes virtual function calls from a Click router configuration

SYNOPSIS
click-devirtualize [options] [router-file]

DESCRIPTION
The click-devirtualize tool speeds up a Click configuration by removing virtual function calls from its elements. It reads a router configuration file in the language and creates specialized C++ source code for each element. The virtual function calls in this specialized C++ code are replaced with direct function calls to other elements in the configuration.

After creating the source code, click-devirtualize will optionally compile it into dynamically loadable packages. The elements in the input configuration are changed to use new, specially generated element classes, and the resulting configuration, plus source code and any compiled packages, are combined into an archive and written to the standard output. You can install such an archive into the Linux kernel module with

  % click-devirtualize -k CONFIGURATION | click-install

The user level driver can read the archives directly.

The click-devirtualize transformation can be reversed with the --reverse option.

OPTIONS
If any filename argument is a single dash "-", click-devirtualize will use the standard input or output instead, as appropriate.

-f file
--file file
    Read the router configuration to transform from file. The default is the standard input.

-o file
--output file
    Write the output router configuration to file. The default is the standard output.

-k, --kernel
    Generate a dynamically loadable package for the Linux kernel module.

-u, --user
    Generate a dynamically loadable package for the user-level driver.

-s, --source
    Output only the specialized element class source code.

-c, --config
    Output only the new configuration (the one that includes specialized elements).

-r, --reverse
    Reverse the tranformation. That is, change any existing devirtualized element classes into the equivalent normal elements.

-n class
--no-devirtualize class
    Do not devirtualize elements whose element class is class. Such elements will continue using normal source code.

-i file
--instructions file
    Read devirtualization instructions from file. This file can contain any number of lines. Comments start with `#'; non-blank, non-comment lines should have devirtualization directives. There is currently one directive: "noclass class1 class2..." is equivalent to several `--no-devirtualize classi' options.

--help
    Print usage information and exit.

--version
    Print the version number and some quickie warranty information and exit.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR
Eddie Kohler, eddietwo@lcs.mit.edu
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/click/