Re: [Ila] [lisp] LISP for ILA - scaling

[Dino Farinacci <[e-mail]>]

Copying Eliot.

I don’t remember Eliot analyzing the data-plane. But he did see how far the mapping database could scale with push and don’t recall he saying 1 billion would be achievable either.

Dino

> On Mar 16, 2018, at 2:53 PM, Joel M. Halpern <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> From the analysis Eliot did many years ago for a LISP push solution, for any constrained solution (a data center, a mobile operator, a fixed service operator) the number of entries is probably not a problem.  Even for a conventional router.  Churn rate, in its various manifestations, could well be an issue.
> 
> Sharding is but one of several ways to divide and conquer to avoid those issues.  Separating control load from data plane load is also a useful way to help keep things manageable.
> 
> Yours,
> Joel
> 
> On 3/16/18 3:33 PM, Tom Herbert wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Dino Farinacci <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> Yes, understand. But even in your constrained “domain”, there may be just too much state to push to all nodes. Especially in the 5G use-case. It wasn’t a problem in the LISP beta network because the proxy xTRs had relatively coarse prefixes that reached lots of EIDs.
>>> 
>> The state would need to be sharded. You'd probably need to do this
>> anyway for mapping-servers or high thoughput Internet facing routers
>> for which using a cache would be challenging.
>> Tom
>>>> require provisioning ILA-Rs to handle the full load if necessary to be
>>>> robust.
>>> 
>>> Yes indeed.
>>> 
>>> Dino
>>> 
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