[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] librte_lpm: Improve performance of the delete and add functions

[Alex Kiselev]

> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:05:27 +0300
> Alex Kiselev <alex at therouter.net> wrote:

>> librte_lpm: Improve lpm6 performance

>> Rework the lpm6 rule subsystem and replace
>> current rules algorithm complexity O(n)
>> with hashtables which allow dealing with
>> large (50k) rule sets.

>> Signed-off-by: Alex Kiselev <alex at therouter.net>

> Internet routers can have 1M rule sets.
> The cost of a hash table maybe too high then?
If I am not mistaken cuckoo hash algorithm on which the rte_hash is 
based is just a plain array logically divided into buckets.

So, I am not introducing any memory overhead in comparison
with current rule storage implementation that uses a plain array.


-- 
Alex