Technologies for control plane separation in a network interface controller

US11531752B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Akeem Abodunrin · Hillsboro, US
• Lev Faerman · Rishon LeZion, IL
• Scott P. Dubal · Hillsboro, US
• Suyog Kulkarni · Portland, US
• Anjali Singhai Jain · Portland, US
• Eliel Louzoun · Tveria, IL
• Nrupal Jani · Hillsboro, US
• Yadong Li · Portland, US
• Eliezer Tamir · Bet Shemesh, IL
• Arvind Srinivasan · San Jose, US
• Ben-Zion Friedman · Jerusalem, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 26, 2018
• Grant date: Dec 20, 2022
• Expiry date: Dec 19, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2221/034
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Technologies for control plane separation at a network interface controller (NIC) of a compute device configured to transmit, by a resource of the compute device, commands to a physical function managed by a network interface controller (NIC) of the compute device. The NIC is further to establish a data plane separate from a control plane, wherein the control plane comprises one of the trusted control path and the untrusted control path. Additionally, the resource is configured to transmit the commands via one of the trusted control path or the untrusted control path based on a trust level associated with the physical function. Other embodiments are described herein.