[ixp1200] Control of microengines and threads++

[Johnson, Erik J]

I do not understand this!

[erik] That is because I am an idiot =)  1000Mb/s ports take 2 MEs for
rx and 1 ME for tx.  The 4 10/100Mb/s ports take 1 me for each.  So, you
should be able to support 2 Gb/s ports, or 16 10/100Mb/s ports, or 8
10/100Mb/s ports plus 1 Gb/s port.  Does that make more sense?

When you say ingress ACE microblock, do you in fact mean the
EthernetIngress macro? (e.g., SlowIngress macro).

[erik] Yes.  A microblock is really just two macros, and initialization
a macro and a "processing" macro.

Erik

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Erik J. Johnson
Intel Research & Development
erik.j.johnson at intel.com
NOT SPEAKING FOR INTEL
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