An Impulse-C Hardware Accelerator for Packet Classification Based on Fine/Coarse Grain Optimization

Table 9

Performance achieved in terms of classification (packet/sec) and time (ms).

Benchmark	Classification (packet/sec)		Classification (time (ms))		Speedup over desktop (x)
	Desktop	Impulse-C	Desktop	Impulse-C	Impulse-C
ACL (10 K)	200,413.22	5,371,212.25	484	18.06	26.80
FW (10 K)	207,264.96	5,436,462.69	468	17.15	27.28
IPC (10 K)	214,128.04	5,503,311.31	453	16.47	27.50
Average	207,268.74	5,436,995.42	468	17.23	27.17