[c-nsp] Whats happens when TCAM is full on 7600/RSP720RSP-3CXL?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:44:55PM +0200, ??ukasz Bromirski wrote:
> For traffic going to prefixes that failed to be installed in HW,
> resulting performance will be similar to what you can get on those
> pretty small, non-x86 CPUs. 

Much worse, actually, as the control-plane limiters hit hard - so you
do not get "full software-switched performance, with 100% CPU load"
but "CPU load is mostly normal, everything looks normal, some targets
have 80% packet loss".

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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