公开(公告)号：US20240121194A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-11

申请号：US18392028

申请日：2023-12-21

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Niall MCDONNELL ,  Ambalavanar ARULAMBALAM ,  Bruce RICHARDSON ,  Te MA

IPC: H04L47/125 ,  H04L47/30 ,  H04L47/625

CPC classification number: H04L47/125 ,  H04L47/30 ,  H04L47/6255

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer programs are disclosed for buffer management in load balancing. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed to comprise providing a set of buffers by a storage of a load balancer to store packets to be distributed by the load balancer, and distributing the packets by the load balancer to a set of cores of a computer processor to be processed by the set of cores. The method further comprises responsive to buffer utilization in the storage over a first threshold, obtaining by circuitry of the load balancer, from top of a memory stack coupled to the storage, additional buffers to store the packets to be distributed and responsive to buffer utilization in the storage below a second threshold, returning by the circuitry of the load balancer, available buffers in the storage to the top of the memory stack.