[c-nsp] ACL performance question

[Saku Ytti]

On 22 August 2016 at 10:08, Adam Vitkovsky <Adam.Vitkovsky at gamma.co.uk> wrote:

> The number of lines(if length of tcam allows) or complexity of each line (if tcam width allows) should not matter in TCAM based platforms cause you should get your result in one oscillator tick, that means the performance should be constant with the growing number of lines and you should only experience a constant x% dip in performance due to additional access to external memory for each packet.

Aah you're talking about performance, I was talking about TCAM entires
used. Performance indeed isn't a concern, but fitting ACL in TCAM is,
but this luckily should be easy to monitor and then decide how to best
write your ACL.

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