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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@mellanox.com, idosh@mellanox.com,
	john.fastabend@intel.com, ast@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	jhs@mojatatu.com, ecree@solarflare.com,
	vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: Centralizing support for TCAM?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 21:02:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160902190203.GS16864@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57C9C9BE.6040407@gmail.com>

> I need to get reasonable operations per second on the TCAM tables.
> Reasonable for me being somewhere in the 50k to 100k add/del/update
> commands per second. I'm hesitant to create more abstractions then
> are actually needed.

Hi John

That is an interesting requirement. Could you explain why?

The Marvell TCAM is accessed using MDIO. Maybe it can do 50
add/del/updates per second. For a WiFi access point, or cable modem,
even 50 per second seems ample, they get set at boot and never
changed.

	Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-02 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <57d4a2db-ca3b-909a-073a-52ecceb428f2@gmail.com>
2016-09-02 17:18 ` Centralizing support for TCAM? Florian Fainelli
2016-09-02 18:49   ` John Fastabend
2016-09-02 19:02     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2016-09-03  7:09     ` Jiri Pirko
2016-09-06  3:44       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-09-06 11:17         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-06 13:31           ` Andrew Lunn
2016-09-06 13:36             ` Jamal Hadi Salim

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