公开(公告)号：US20220337500A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-20

申请号：US17689606

申请日：2022-03-08

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Lenin SINGARAVELU ,  Jin HEO ,  Jui-Ting WENG ,  Ayyappan VEERAIYAN ,  Yong WANG

IPC: H04L43/16 ,  H04L43/0894 ,  H04L43/103 ,  G06F9/455

Abstract: A method of optimizing network processing in a system comprising a physical host and a set of physical network interface controllers (PNICs) is provided. The physical host includes a forwarding element. The method includes determining that a set of conditions is satisfied to bypass the forwarding element for exchanging packets between a particular data compute node (DCN) and a particular PNIC. The set of conditions includes the particular DCN being the only DCN connected to the forwarding element and the particular PNIC being the only PNIC connected to the forwarding element. The method exchanges packets between the particular DCN and the particular PNIC bypassing the forwarding element. The method determines that at least one condition in said set of conditions is not satisfied. The method utilizes the forwarding element to exchange packets between the particular DCN and the particular PNIC.