System for controlling look-ups in a data table in a network switch

A system including an ordered data table containing linked lists of MAC addresses has a multiplicity of search engines which have their access to an LRU engine under the control of a token which is passed from one search engine to the next when the LRU engine has completed reordering the table after...

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Hauptverfasser: KEVIN JENNINGS, GARETH EDWARD ALLWRIGHT, CHRISTOPHER HAY, EDELE O'MALLEY
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Zusammenfassung:A system including an ordered data table containing linked lists of MAC addresses has a multiplicity of search engines which have their access to an LRU engine under the control of a token which is passed from one search engine to the next when the LRU engine has completed reordering the table after an address look-up. The system avoids conflicts between searching and reordering and allows reordering to be performed at a controlled rate.