公开(公告)号：US20200036636A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-30

申请号：US16045690

申请日：2018-07-25

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Aditya G. Holla ,  Wenyi Jiang ,  Rajeev Nair ,  Srikar Tati ,  Boon Ang ,  Kairav Padarthy

IPC: H04L12/803 ,  H04L12/863 ,  H04L12/743 ,  H04L12/935 ,  H04L12/931 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for selecting a transmit queue of a network interface card (NIC) of a host computer for an outbound data message. The NIC includes multiple transmit queues and multiple receive queues. Each of the transmit queues is individually associated with a different receive queue, and the MC performs a load balancing operation to distribute inbound data messages among multiple receive queues. The method extracts a set of header values from a header of the outbound data message. The method uses the extracted set of header values to identify a receive queue which the NIC would select for a corresponding inbound data message upon which the NIC performed the load balancing operation. The method selects a transmit queue associated with the identified receive queue to process the outbound data message.