Speedy FPGA-based packet classifiers with low on-chip memory requirements

  • Authors:
  • Chih-Hsun Chou;Fong Pong;Nian-Feng Tzeng

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA;Broadcom Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA;University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM/SIGDA international symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This article pursues speedy packet classification with low on-chip memory requirements realized on Xilinx Virtext-6 FPGA. Based on hashing round-down prefixes specified in filter rules (dubbed HaRP), our implemented classifier is demonstrated to exhibit an extremely low on-chip memory requirement (lowering the byte count per rule by a factor of 8.6 in comparison with its most recent counterpart [2]), taking only 50% of Virtex-6 on-chip memory to store every large rule dataset (with some 30K rules) examined. In addition, it achieves a higher throughput than any known FPGA implementation, reaching more than 200 MPPS (millions packet lookups per second) with 8 processing units and 8 memory banks in the HaRP pipeline to support the line rate over 130 Gbps under bi-directional traffic in the worst case with 40-byte packets. By reducing memory probes per lookup, enhanced HaRP can further boost the classification speed to 255 MPPS.