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Cache memory design for Internet processors

2000; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/40.820050

1937-4143

Tzi‐cker Chiueh, P. Pradham,

Software-Defined Networks and 5G

As a result of the exploding bandwidth demand from the Internet, network router and switch designers are designing and fabricating a growing number of microchips specifically for networking devices rather than traditional computing applications. In particular, a new breed of microprocessors, called Internet processors, has emerged that is designed to efficiently execute network protocols on various types of internetworking devices including switches, routers, and application-level gateways. We evaluate a series of three progressively more aggressive routing-table cache designs and demonstrate that the incorporation of hardware caches into Internet processors, combined with efficient caching algorithms can significantly improve overall packet forwarding performance.