Re: 400G forwarding - how does it work?

[Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>]

Thank you for this.

I wish there would have been a deeper dive to the lookup side. My open questions

a) Trio model of packet stays in single PPE until done vs. FP model of
line-of-PPE (identical cores). I don't understand the advantages of
the FP model, the Trio model advantages are clear to me. Obviously the
FP model has to have some advantages, what are they?

b) What exactly are the gains of putting two trios on-package in
Trio6, there is no local-switching between WANs of trios in-package,
they are, as far as I can tell, ships in the night, packets between
trios go via fabric, as they would with separate Trios. I can
understand the benefit of putting trio and HBM2 on the same package,
to reduce distance so wattage goes down or frequency goes up.

c) What evolution they are thinking for the shallow ingress buffers
for Trio6. The collateral damage potential is significant, because WAN
which asks most, gets most, instead each having their fair share, thus
potentially arbitrarily low rate WAN ingress might not get access to
ingress buffer causing drop. Would it be practical in terms of
wattage/area to add some sort of preQoS towards the shallow ingress
buffer, so each WAN ingress has a fair guaranteed-rate to shallow
buffers?

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 02:18, Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.ietf () gmail com> wrote:
> Apologies for garbage/HTMLed email, not sure what happened (thanks
> Brian F for letting me know).
> Anyway, the podcast with Juniper (mostly around Trio/Express) has been
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> Next in the pipeline are:
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> Broadcom DNX (Jericho/Qumran/Ramon)
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>
> Enjoy
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 5:06 PM Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.ietf () gmail com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
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> >
> > From: James Bensley
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 12:53 PM
> > To: Lawrence Wobker; NANOG
> > Subject: Re: 400G forwarding - how does it work?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 at 21:39, Lawrence Wobker <ljwobker () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > So if this pipeline can do 1.25 billion PPS and I want to be able to forward 10BPPS, I can build a chip that has 
> > > 8 of these pipelines and get my performance target that way.  I could also build a "pipeline" that processes 
> > > multiple packets per clock, if I have one that does 2 packets/clock then I only need 4 of said pipelines... and 
> > > so on and so forth.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the response Lawrence.
> >
> >
> >
> > The Broadcom BCM16K KBP has a clock speed of 1.2Ghz, so I expect the
> >
> > J2 to have something similar (as someone already mentioned, most chips
> >
> > I've seen are in the 1-1.5Ghz range), so in this case "only" 2
> >
> > pipelines would be needed to maintain the headline 2Bpps rate of the
> >
> > J2, or even just 1 if they have managed to squeeze out two packets per
> >
> > cycle through parallelisation within the pipeline.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > James.



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