Reducing short-packet overhead in computer clusters
US10298494B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 10, 2015 |
| Grant date | May 21, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 17, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/59
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method includes, in a computing system that includes multiple compute nodes that run workloads and are connected by a network, establishing a dedicated Transport Control Protocol (TCP) connection over the network between a first compute node and a second compute node. Packets, which originate from one or more source workloads on the first compute node and are destined to one or more destination workloads on the second compute node, are identified and queued in the first compute node. The queued packets are aggregated in the first compute node into one or more TCP segments, and the TCP segments are sent over the dedicated TCP connection to the second compute node. In the second compute node, the TCP segments are received over the dedicated TCP connection, the packets are extracted from the received TCP segments, and the extracted packets are forwarded to the destination workloads.
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