APPLICATION OF AN EXPRESS DATA PATH CONFIGURATION IN A VIRTUAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

• Main Authors: Ang, Boon Seong, Li, Peng, Doshi, Ronak, Yang, Guolin, Tu, Cheng-Chun
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 11.07.2024
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to offload an eXpress Data Path (XDP) operation from a virtual machine to the hypervisor or smart network interface on the host. In one implementation, a method includes, in a virtual machine on a host, passing an XDP configuration for the virtual...