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From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] lpm: increase number of next hops for
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:20:33 -0700
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 03:51:48PM +0200, Michal Jastrzebski wrote:
> From: Michal Kobylinski  <michalx.kobylinski@intel.com>
> 
> The current DPDK implementation for LPM for IPv4 and IPv6 limits the
> number of next hops to 256, as the next hop ID is an 8-bit long field.
> Proposed extension increase number of next hops for IPv4 to 2^24 and
> also allows 32-bits read/write operations.
> 
> This patchset requires additional change to rte_table library to meet 
> ABI compatibility requirements. A v2 will be sent next week.

I also have a patchset for this.

I will send it out as well so we could compare.

Matthew.