[rrg] BGP scaling limit?

Tony Li tony.li at tony.li
Thu Jan 1 16:33:00 PST 2009


Hi Paul, 

|ICBW, but I think you're describing what's been called the "Memory 
|wall" by Wulf & McKee:
|
|  http://www.cs.virginia.edu/papers/Hitting_Memory_Wall-wulf94.pdf
|
|and see also:
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|  http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~sam/papers/cf04.pdf


Thank you for the excellent references, I think they're exactly on point.
Routing is simply one of the applications that is going to hit the memory
wall.

Tony



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