Packet processing with hardware offload units
US12021759B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 6, 2020 |
| Grant date | Jun 25, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 22, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L49/1546
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for configuring multiple hardware offload units of a host computer to perform operations on packets associated with machines (e.g., virtual machines or containers) executing on the host computer and to pass the packets between each other efficiently. For instance, in some embodiments, the method configures a program executing on the host computer to identify a first hardware offload unit that has to perform a first operation on a packet associated with a particular machine and to provide the packet to the first hardware offload unit. The packet in some embodiments is a packet that the particular machine has sent to a destination machine on the network, or is a packet received from a source machine through a network and destined to the particular machine.
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