This CISCO LIVE dives deeper into Cisco’s SRv6 implementation.

https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/us/docs/2019/pdf/BRKSPG-3001.pdf

They go through all the SRV6 programmability End SID and SR insertion.

I have to read through to see if Cisco’s Ti-LFA implementation requires so many 
EH’s

Gyan

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> On Sep 18, 2019, at 7:56 PM, Gyan Mishra <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Daren
> 
> This is from 2019 CISCO Live presentation 
> 
> https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/us/docs/2019/pdf/BRKMPL-2132.pdf
> 
> IETF Standardization
> • The work started by Cisco in 2014
> • Significant industry collaboration
> • There are over SRv6 50 IETF documents
> • The work spans over 13 working groups
> • SRv6 header has been last called
> • Network Programming is a Working Group document • Multivendor Consensus
>  #CLUS © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
>   
> Cisco Deployments
> • Softbank
> • Cisco Supports SoftBank on First SRv6 Deployment in Prep for 5G • 
> Nationwide SRv6 network carrying live traffic
> • Iliad
> • Nationwide SRv6 network to provide a new mobile offering in Italy • The 
> SRv6 backbone is based on Cisco ASR 9000 and NCS 5500 • All the cell site 
> routers are SRv6 capable Iliad's NodeBox
> • China Telecom
> • Multi-city SRv6 network
> 
> Gyan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 18, 2019, at 9:41 AM, Darren Dukes (ddukes) <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Ron.  
>> 
>> I summarized my argument as follows:
>> "Regardless of ASIC capabilities there are two performance penalties you 
>> will not escape with PSSI+CRH+PPSI: TLV parsing and multiple lookups.”
>> 
>> You’ve confirmed this additional overhead for "SRv6+".  Thanks.
>> 
>> You then say "So long as the ASIC can process enough packets per second to 
>> saturate the line cards, we are forwarding at full line rate."
>> 
>> Yes this is true, but we can conclude: The complexity of "SRv6+" requires 
>> ASICs do much more work per packet vs SRv6.
>> 
>> Thanks
>>   Darren
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 16, 2019, at 9:59 PM, Ron Bonica <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Darren, 
>>>  
>>> I think that your argument can be summarized as follows:
>>>  
>>> SRv6 requires only two FIB searches
>>> SRv6+ requires 4 or more FIB searches
>>> Therefore, SRv6+ cannot possibly forward at line speed
>>>  
>>> Have I summarized your argument correctly? If not, please set me straight. 
>>> If so, please read on.
>>>  
>>> First, SRv6+ never requires more than 4 FIB searches. The DOH that precedes 
>>> the CRH contains, at most, one PSSI. Therefore SRv6+ requires four FIB 
>>> searches, at most.
>>>  
>>> Second, SRv6+ only requires 4 FIB searches the following case:
>>>  
>>> The packet contains two instances of the DOH. (Most use-cases require only 
>>> one.)
>>> The processing node is configured to process the PSSI. (Many ASIC-based 
>>> devices, because of their role in the network, won’t support any per 
>>> segment service instructions. This nodes will be configured to ignore the 
>>> PSSI. That is why it is optional.)
>>>  
>>> So, in most use-cases, SRv6+ requires only 3 FIB searches.
>>>  
>>> So, you might now argue that:
>>>  
>>> SRv6 requires only two FIB searches
>>> SRv6+ requires three and sometimes four FIB searches
>>> Therefore, SRv6+ cannot possibly forward at line speed
>>>  
>>> Here, some slightly deeper thought might be required. A platform has two 
>>> relevant resources:
>>>  
>>> A route lookup ASIC, that can process some number of packets per second
>>> Some number of interfaces, that can forward some number of bits per second
>>>  
>>> So long as the ASIC can process enough packets per second to saturate the 
>>> line cards, we are forwarding at full line rate. So long as a platform has 
>>> a sufficiently capable ASIC, it will be able to forward at line speed. But 
>>> it’s a matter of how the platform is designed. If the ASIC is not 
>>> sufficiently capable, of course, it will not forward at line speed.
>>>  
>>> In your email, you say that I have been asked several times to report on 
>>> the state of Juniper’s SRv6+ implementation. While I cannot provide 
>>> details, you can assume that we wouldn’t be working on this if we thought 
>>> that performance was going to be sub-optimal.
>>>  
>>> You also suggest that Juniper’s is the only implementation. Are you sure 
>>> that this is correct?
>>>  
>>>                                                                             
>>>                                          Ron
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>> Juniper Business Use Only
>>> From: Darren Dukes (ddukes) <[email protected]> 
>>> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2019 4:38 PM
>>> To: Ron Bonica <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Mark Smith <[email protected]>; EXT - [email protected] 
>>> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; SPRING WG 
>>> <[email protected]>; 6man <[email protected]>; Robert Raszuk <[email protected]>; 
>>> Rob Shakir <[email protected]>; Tarek Saad <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: “SRV6+” complexity in forwarding
>>>  
>>> Hi Ron, I agree ASICs are always improving, indeed this is evident in the 
>>> number of successful SRv6 deployments and multiple vendor implementations 
>>> at line rate on merchant silicon, and multiple vendor ASICs.
>>> 
>>> Is “SRv6+” (PSSI+CRH+PPSI) implemented and deployed at line rate? 
>>> You’ve been asked this several times.  Since you’re the only implementor(?) 
>>> and one operator is claiming deployment or testing, I am curious.
>>> 
>>> Regardless of ASIC capabilities there are two performance penalties you 
>>> will not escape with PSSI+CRH+PPSI: TLV parsing and multiple lookups.
>>> 
>>> Requiring all segments in a CRH segment list to process an arbitrary length 
>>> DOH+set of PSSI’s and other options is always very expensive.
>>> - It is expensive in SRAM as previously discussed in these threads.
>>> - It is expensive in parsing logic to know and process a set of TLVs in any 
>>> ASIC or NP.
>>> 
>>> Spreading PSSI, CRH, PPSI operations in multiple headers and multiple 
>>> identifiers you now have multiple lookups at a node.
>>> 1 - lookup destination address
>>> 2 - lookup one or more PSSI and future destination options.
>>> 3 - lookup the CRH label or PPSI label.
>>> 4 - lookup new destination address
>>> 
>>> Compare this with SRv6.
>>> 1 - lookup destination address
>>> 2 - lookup new destination address
>>> 
>>> While ASICs are more capable and will continue to be more capable, these 
>>> technical performance problems you introduce with PSSI+CRH+PPSI will not go 
>>> away.
>>> 
>>> Darren
>>>  
>>> 
>>> On Sep 12, 2019, at 12:34 PM, Ron Bonica 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
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