[rbridge] Consensus Check: Point to Point links

[Anoop Ghanwani]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rbridge-bounces at postel.org 
> [mailto:rbridge-bounces at postel.org] On Behalf Of Silvano Gai
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:40 PM
> To: Joe Touch
> Cc: Rbridge at postel.org; Radia Perlman
> Subject: Re: [rbridge] Consensus Check: Point to Point links
> 
> At 100 Gb/s you can send 150 millions frame/s, i.e. you have 
> 6 ns/frame.
> Any operation you save it counts. Also the memory bandwidth 
> saved in retrieving the rewrite information may make the 
> difference from being able to use off chip memory (larger) or 
> being forced to stay on chip (smaller).

I don't understand why memory bandwidth would be an issue.  
We are talking a single address per port.

Anoop