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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2013
Applicant:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mark David Griswold, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
BROADCOM CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/745 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for a flexible number of lookups in pipeline-based packet processors. Pipeline-based packet processors can be configured to allow multiple lookups per physical table. In one embodiment, a start of packet (SOP) cell is assigned to a first slot of a packet processing pipeline, and a non-SOP cell is assigned to a second slot of a packet processing pipeline. Access of a table by the second slot can be usurped by the SOP cell in the first slot.