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--- documentation:examples:dropping_packets_at_high_rate [2020/02/07 16:36] – [Performance impact] olivier
+++ documentation:examples:dropping_packets_at_high_rate [2020/02/07 16:59] – [Using Chelsio's TCAM firewall] olivier
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-To improve the TCAM performance for a filtering usage, all unused "regions" will be disabled to kept only the route and filter.
+To improve the TCAM performance for a filtering usage, all unused "regions" will be disabled to kept only the route and filter (32 entries for route + 2016 for filter = 2048 total).
 For that we need to download a [[https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/cxgbe/firmware/t5fw_cfg_hashfilter.txt?view=co|default TCAM firmware configuration file for our T5 NIC]] to modify its parameters then load the modified configuration into the NIC flash and instruct the NIC to use the file from its flash.