F5, Inc.

Adam Huson

Timothy Scott Michels

Hao Cai

C Stuart Johnson

Navin Donkana

Technology related to adaptive temporal resource binding based on speculative pipeline interdependency is disclosed. In one example, a key is generated based on contents of a data item (such as a network packet received via a computer network). The key is used to determine whether another data item associated with the key is in a processing pipeline, of a plurality of processing pipelines. If another data item associated with the key is in one of the processing pipelines, then the data item is sent to that processing pipeline. If no other data item associated with the key is in any of the processing pipelines, the data item is sent based on available capacities of the processing pipelines. Subsequent data items associated with the same key are sent to the same pipeline so long as at least one data item associated with the key is still in the processing pipeline.

Adaptive temporal resource binding based on speculative pipeline interdependency

Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic manager apparatuses, and systems that assist with allocating a traffic load through heterogenous topology of a network includes extracting a header of each of a plurality of received packets of a traffic flow. Each of the headers comprises fields. Next, the network traffic manager apparatus executes a hashing function over the fields of each of the headers, applies a load balancing function to determine one of a plurality of endpoints to send each of the received packets based on one or more endpoint characteristics, and maps the index for each corresponding one of the received packets to the corresponding selected one of the endpoints. The received packets are not evenly divided among the plurality of endpoints. Lastly, the network traffic manager apparatus sends the received packets selected endpoint based on the mapping from the load balancing policy.

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