[dpdk-dev] LPM6 next hop size

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:55:43 -0700
Matthew Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:07:46PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > If you have 2G of huge memory and one 16M routes then the rules start to
> > kill an application.
> > Since huge memory is unpageable (pinned) then it is limited.  
> 
> Won't paging out routes result in very poor network performance?

This is the rules not the LPM table itself. The rules are only used when computing
new LPM after add/delete route.