Hi all,
i'm happy to announce that we finished the work on the carrierroute module for
kamailio 1.5. We implemented a bunch of new features that makes the module
more flexible then ever, and also fixed a few annoyances in the module usage:
1. Improved routing data loading
The module supports now the partioned loading of routing data during startup
and reloads. In the past when one want to load big route set it was necessary
to increase the private memory pool size, as the data was stored temporarily
there. Now this is not necessary anymore, its possible to load route sets
with e.g. 400.000 rules in the standard (private memory) configuration.
2. Efficient matching of domains and carriers
In the old implementation a simple linear list was used, this was replaced
with a fast binary search function. The module can now look up carrier and
domains in most cases with O(log n), which makes it more scalable when a big
number of carriers and/ or domains are involved. Only when a dynamic string
is used in the config script a full list search is needed.
3. Support for non-numerical prefix matching
Carrierroute now supports also the prefix matching with non-numerical
characters. Its possible to use the entire standard ascii charset for route
matching. This is configurable with a module parameter, the default
implementation is still the know digit matching method. Please keep in mind
that memory demands will increase somewhat when the extended matching is
used. This additonal flexibility will probably bring a small overhead with
it, as some additional logic is involved during the routing deciscion. But i
don't think this will be noticable on today standard servers.
4. Extensive refactoring and cleanups
We restructured and refactored the code in most areas, to make the module
implementation and structure more understandable, maintainable and
extensible. We replaced the usage of custom datatypes and fixup functions
with the standard core implementation, switched to the autogenerated DB
interface and use now standard glibc functions e.g. for the list search. We
changed certain structures to not store the full name of carriers and domains
in memory to save space and got finally rid of this mismatch between internal
and external carrier ID.
More details about the new implementation can be found in the documentation
at:
http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/devel/carrierroute.html
Porting hints, e.g. for the new database structure are provided at:
http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/install:1.4.x-to-1.5.0
We did tests with our testsuite, but please keep in mind that there are
probably a few bugs present. So any testing is highly appreciated, please
report any bugs to the tracker or the development list.
With best regards,
Henning Westerholt
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