Abstract:
Methods and Apparatus for Multi-Stage VM Virtual Network Function and Virtual Service Function Chain Acceleration for NFV and needs-based hardware acceleration. Compute platform hosting virtualized environments including virtual machines (VMs) running service applications performing network function virtualization (NFV) employ Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to provide a hardware-based fast path for performing VM-to-VM and NFV-to-NFV transfers. The FPGAs, along with associated configuration data are also configured to support dynamic assignment and performance of hardware-acceleration to offload processing tasks from processors in virtualized environments, such as cloud data centers and the like.
Abstract:
A method and system may provide virtual port communications. A data frame, containing a destination identifier in a destination field and payload, may be modified by inserting a first virtual machine tag therein. The first virtual machine tag may include a first virtual port identifier for identifying a first logical interface of a first virtual machine on a virtual machine host.
Abstract:
Examples described herein include a system comprising: a processing unit package comprising: at least one core and at least one offload processing device communicatively coupled inline between the at least one core and a network interface controller, the at least one offload processing device configurable to perform packet processing. In some examples, the at least one offload processing device is to allow mapping of packet processing pipeline stages of networking applications among software running on the at least one core and the at least one offload processing device to permit flexible entry, exit, and re-entry points among the at least one core and the at least one offload processing device.
Abstract:
Technologies for high-speed data transmission including a network port logic having a communication lane coupled to a physical medium dependent/physical medium attachment (PMD/PMA) sublayer, a physical coding sublayer (PCS), and a media access control (MAC) sublayer. The communication lane receives serial binary data at a line speed such as 25 gigabits per second. The PMD/PMA converts the serial binary data into parallel data, and the PCS decodes that parallel data using a line code also used for a slower line speed such as 10 gigabits per second. The network port logic may include four independent communication lanes, with each communication lane coupled to a dedicated PMD/PMA, PCS, and MAC. The network port logic may also include a multi-lane PCS and multi-lane MAC to receive and transmit data striped over the four communication lanes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Abstract:
Data is received from a physical coding sublayer (PCS) of a physical layer, where the physical layer comprises a BASE-R physical layer. The data is used to generate a forward error correction (FEC) block comprising a shortened cyclic code comprising 32 rows of a particular number of bits, the particular number of bits comprise payload bits generated from output of the PCS and one or more bits of transcoding overhead, wherein the FEC block further comprises 32 parity bits at the end of the FEC block. The FEC block is scrambled using a pseudo-noise sequence. The FEC block is sent to a physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayer of the physical layer.
Abstract:
A method and system may provide virtual port communications. A data frame, containing a destination identifier in a destination field and payload, may be modified by inserting a first virtual machine tag therein. The first virtual machine tag may include a first virtual port identifier for identifying a first logical interface of a first virtual machine on a virtual machine host
Abstract:
A method and system may provide virtual port communications. A data frame, containing a destination identifier in a destination field and payload, may be modified by inserting a first virtual machine tag therein. The first virtual machine tag may include a first virtual port identifier for identifying a first logical interface of a first virtual machine on a virtual machine host
Abstract:
Apparatus, systems, and methods for resolving a forward error correction (FEC) protocol include requesting, by a network node element during an auto-negotiation period between the node element and a link partner, to resolve at least one FEC mode during a data mode period, wherein auto-negotiation period occurs before the data mode period. At least one channel quality parameter of at least one channel of a communication link between the network node element and the link partner are determined by the network node element during the data mode period. The network node determines, during the data mode period, whether to enable or disable at least one FEC mode for use by the network node element based on, at least in part, the at least one channel quality parameter.