Scale on custom pipeline Instance

  • The hardware can match up to four different Groups of match in the custom-pipeline mode.

  • The number of groups depends on the match fields in the HASH or TCAM table.

HASH table

  • A single hash table can have match fields from any of the above three groups only.

  • Based on the number of groups matched, the scale varies.
    • If the hash table is created with match fields from one group, it can hold up to 64k entries.

    • If the hash table is created with match fields from two or three groups, it can hold up to 32k entries.
      NOTE:

      The maximum numbers of flows for 2930F/2930M switches are limited to 16k entries.

TCAM table

  • A single tcam table can have match fields from up to four groups. The new group table has more than four groups.

  • The scale varies depending on the number of groups.
    • If the tcam table is created with match fields from one group, it can hold up to 8k entries.

    • If the tcam table is created with match fields from two groups, it can hold up to 4k entries

    • If the tcam table is created with match fields from three or four groups, it can hold up to 2k entries

NOTE:

An instance without “pipeline-model” configured defaults to standard-match but changes to IP-control mode when ip-control-mode is globally enabled.