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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2012
Doron Shoham, Shoham, IL;
Shimon Listman, Tel Mond, IL;
Doron Shoham, Shoham, IL;
Shimon Listman, Tel Mond, IL;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, batch entries include multiple content-addressable memory (CAM) entries, and CAM entries are allowed to be shared among different batch entries. For example, two or more batch entries might have a common set of bits (e.g., representing an address, an address prefix, etc.). Rather than consuming bits of multiple CAM entries, a single CAM entry can be programmed with this common information. Other CAM entries associated with different batch entries are programmed with the distinguishing/different values. A batch lookup operation on a batch entry of two or more CAM entries requires multiple lookup operations on the CAM entries. One embodiment uses a batch mask vector to provide information to decode what CAM entries are shared among which batch entries during a series of lookup operations, which can be performed in one or both directions through the CAM entries.