netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/9] net: Generic network resolver backend and ILA resolver

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Date:   Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:16:35 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tom@...ntonium.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        rohit@...ntonium.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/9] net: Generic network resolver backend
 and ILA resolver

From: Tom Herbert <tom@...ntonium.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:16:17 -0800

> How can we build a system that allows an unlimited number of
> resolutions without drop?

IPV4 routing solves this with a prefixed trie, for example.

The fundamental backing datastructure for the switching
or whatever operation must be in-memory, in the kernel,
scalable, and without a fronting "cache".