Scalable, high performance ethernet forwarding with CuckooSwitch
Dong Zhou, Bin Fan, Hyeontaek Lim, Michael J Kaminsky, David G. Andersen · 2013
Several emerging network trends and new architectural ideas are placing increasing demand on forwarding table sizes. From massive-scale datacenter networks running millions of virtual machines to flow-based software-defined networking, many intriguing design options require FIBs that can scale well beyond the thousands or tens of thousands possible using today's commodity switching chips.