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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: Centralizing support for TCAM?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 21:02:03 +0200
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> 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