Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Technologies for offloading a virtual service endpoint to a network interface card
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Application No.: US14496417Application Date: 2014-09-25
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Publication No.: US10237354B2Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: Nrupal R. Jani
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L12/803 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
Technologies for offloading virtual service endpoint capabilities include a compute node and network controller. A device driver of a compute device may discover offloaded virtual service endpoint capability of a network interface card of the compute device. The device driver may advertise the offloaded virtual service endpoint capability to a network agent and virtual network functions provided by the compute device. An out-of-band tag may be associated with the offloaded virtual service endpoint to identify network packets to be processed by the offloaded virtual service endpoint. The network agent may add a flow entry to a forwarding table of a network switch of the compute device based on network flow information received from the network controller. The network agent may also associate the added flow entry with the offloaded virtual service endpoint based on the out-of-band tag and configure the offloaded virtual service endpoint based on the network flow information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160094667A1 TECHNOLOGIES FOR OFFLOADING A VIRTUAL SERVICE ENDPOINT TO A NETWORK INTERFACE CARD Public/Granted day:2016-03-31
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