Clock synchronization NIC offload

    公开(公告)号:US12255734B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-18

    申请号:US17973575

    申请日:2022-10-26

    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a network interface controller including a device interface to connect to a processing device and receive a time synchronization marker message from an application running on the processing device, a network interface to send packets over a network, and packet processing circuitry to process the time synchronization marker message for sending via the network interface over the network to a slave clock device, generate a time synchronization follow-up message including a timestamp indicative of when the synchronization marker message egressed the network interface, and process the time synchronization follow-up message for sending via the network interface over the network to the slave clock device.

    Coalescing packets based on hints generated by network adapter

    公开(公告)号:US12218860B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-04

    申请号:US16932765

    申请日:2020-07-19

    Abstract: A network node includes a network adapter and a host. The network adapter is coupled to a communication network. The host includes a processor running a client process and a communication stack, and is configured to receive packets from the communication network, and classify the received packets into respective flows that are associated with respective chunks in a receive buffer, to distribute payloads of the received packets among the chunks so that payloads of packets classified to a given flow are stored in a given chunk assigned to the given flow, and to notify the communication stack of the payloads in the given chunk, for transferring the payloads in the given chunk to the client process.

    Generic packet header insertion and removal

    公开(公告)号:US11438266B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-06

    申请号:US16780940

    申请日:2020-02-04

    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a host interface, connected to a peripheral component bus so as to communicate with a CPU and a memory of a host computer. A network interface is connected to a network. Packet processing circuitry is configured to receive from a first interface a data packet including a set of one or more headers that include header fields having respective values, to identify, responsively to at least one of the header fields, a corresponding entry in a header modification table that specifies a header modification operation, to modify the set of headers in accordance with the header modification operation, to check whether the entry specifies an additional header modification operation, to output the modified set of headers if the entry does not specify an additional header modification operation, and, if the entry specifies an additional header modification operation, to feed-back the modified set of headers.

    Flexible parser in a networking device

    公开(公告)号:US11258885B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-22

    申请号:US16708470

    申请日:2019-12-10

    Abstract: One embodiment includes a network device, including hardware parsers to receive data of a header section of a packet, the header section including respective headers, parser configuration registers to store a default parsing configuration data set, wherein at least one of the hardware parsers is configured to parse at least one of the headers responsively to the default parsing configuration data set, yielding first parsed data, a packet processing engine to select a selected parsing configuration data set from a selection of parsing configuration data sets responsively to the first parsed data, cause loading of the selected parsing configuration data set into the parser configuration registers, and wherein ones of the hardware parsers are configured to parse respective ones of the headers responsively to the selected parsing configuration data set, yielding second parsed data, and process the packet responsively to the second parsed data.

    Network device with programmable action processing

    公开(公告)号:US12282775B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-22

    申请号:US18321013

    申请日:2023-05-22

    Abstract: A network device includes one or more ports, match-action circuitry, and an action processor. The one or more ports are to exchange packets between the network device and a network. The match-action circuitry is to match at least some of the packets to one or more rules so as to set respective actions to be performed, at least one of the actions including a programmable action. The instruction processor is to perform the programmable action by running user-programmable software code. The instruction processor includes architectural registers, one or more of the architectural registers being accessible by the match-action circuitry, and the match-action circuitry is to write into the architectural registers information for performing the programmable action.

    Apparatus and method for improved network resource management

    公开(公告)号:US12244671B1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-04

    申请号:US18242637

    申请日:2023-09-06

    Abstract: Apparatus and method for improved network resource management are described herein. An example computing apparatus comprises a network adapter configured to: receive, via a network connection, a data packet from the communication network; determine, from the first memory block, a value of an extended portion of a local counter associated with the network connection in response to receiving the data packet; capture, from the second memory block, a value of a global counter; compare the value of the extended portion of the local counter with the value of the global counter; and in an instance in which the comparison identifies a mismatch: update the value of the extended portion of the local counter based on the value of the global counter; and set a current value of a bit indicating a status of the network connection, wherein the bit is associated with the plurality of bits.

    Efficient scattering to buffers
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12068968B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17588295

    申请日:2022-01-30

    CPC classification number: H04L47/2441 H04L69/22

    Abstract: In one embodiments, data communication system include a communication apparatus, which is configured to receive data from different user equipment devices a schedule of time periods, and packetize the data from respective ones of the user equipment devices for respective ones of the time periods into packets, a memory including a plurality of buffers, and a network interface controller configured to receive the packets from the communication apparatus, and scatter respective portions of the data belonging to respective groups of successive ones of the time periods to the buffers, responsively to a static set of steering rules, and timing information of respective ones of the packets, and wherein each respective portion of the data is scattered to the buffers a same scatter pattern.

    Efficient packet reordering using hints

    公开(公告)号:US11792139B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-17

    申请号:US17582047

    申请日:2022-01-24

    CPC classification number: H04L49/9057 H04L49/9042 H04L69/22

    Abstract: A peripheral device coupled to a host includes a network interface, a packet processor, and a Data Processing Unit (DPU). The packet processor receives from a communication network, via the network interface, packets that originated from a source in an original order and received at the peripheral device in as order different from the original order. The packet processor splits the received packets into headers and payloads, sends the payloads for storage in a host memory and sends the headers without the payloads for storage in a DPU memory, and based on the headers produces a hint indicative of processing to be applied to the headers, by the DPU, for identifying the original order. Based on the hint, the DPU identifies the original order of the packets by applying the processing indicated by the hint to respective headers in the DPU memory, and notifies the host of the original order.

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