Dynamic distribution of RSS engines to virtual machines based on flow data

    公开(公告)号:US10476801B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-12

    申请号:US15965226

    申请日:2018-04-27

    Applicant: NICIRA, INC.

    Abstract: An approach for dynamically distributing RSS engines to virtual machines based on flow data is disclosed. A method comprises receiving first absolute counts of data packets that belong to at least one data flow. Flow load indicator values are computed based on the first absolute counts, and stored in a lookup table. A sorted table is generated by sorting entries of the lookup table. A first count of filters that can be applied on RSS engines is determined. A second count of data flows in the sorted table and having corresponding flow load indicator values exceeding a threshold value is determined. If the second count exceeds the first count, then the first count of data flows is selected from the sorted table. The first count of filters that correspond to the data flows is determined, and the first count of the filters is assigned to at least one RSS engine.

    Large receive offload (LRO) processing in virtualized computing environments

    公开(公告)号:US10313926B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-04

    申请号:US15609037

    申请日:2017-05-31

    Applicant: Nicira, Inc.

    Abstract: Example methods are provided for a host to perform large receive offload (LRO) processing in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise receiving, via a physical network interface controller (NIC), incoming packets that are destined for the virtualized computing instance, and processing the incoming packets to generate at least one processed packet using a networking service pipeline that includes a packet aggregation service and multiple networking services. The packet aggregation service may be configured to aggregate the incoming packets into an aggregated packet and enabled at a service point along the networking service pipeline based on an LRO capability of at least one of the multiple networking services to process the aggregated packet. The method may also comprise forwarding the at least one processed packet generated by the networking service pipeline to the virtualized computing instance.

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