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Fundamental Network Processor Performance Bounds

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Fundamental Network Processor Performance Bounds
In this paper, fundamental conditions which bound the network processing unit (NPU) worst-case performance are established. In particular, these conditions formalize and integrate, with mathematical rigor, two existing approaches for finding the NPU performance bounds, i.e., the work conserving condition and instruction/latency budget based approaches. These fundamental conditions are then employed to derive tight memory access latency bounds for a data path flow with one memory access. Finally, one of these memory access latency bounds is successfully used to interpret a peculiar phenomenon found in Intel IXP1200, demonstrating the importance of analytical modeling for NPU performance analysis.
Hao Che, Chethan Kumar, Basavaraj Menasinahal
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where NCA
Authors Hao Che, Chethan Kumar, Basavaraj Menasinahal
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