Hardware Accelerators Targeting a Novel Group Based Packet Classification Algorithm

Table 2

Benchmarks: rule sets and traces used.

Benchmark size	ACL		FW		IPC
	Rule	Trace	Rule	Trace	Rule	Trace
0.1 k	98	1000	92	920	99	990
1 k	916	9380	791	8050	938	9380
5 k	4415	45600	4653	46700	4460	44790
10 k	9603	97000	9311	93250	9037	90640