Intel Corporation

Mcafee, Inc.

Eliel Louzoun

Eliezer Tamir

Ben-Zion Friedman

Anjali Singhai Jain

Noam Elati

Matthew R Wilcox

Manasi Deval

Robert O Sharp

Gregory Cummings

Mickey Gutman

Steven Bernard McGowan

Theodore L Willke

Donald Wood

Stephen Doyle

Ygdal Naouri

Scott P Dubal

Linden Cornett

Nimrod Diamant

Patrick Fleming

Gregory J Bowers

Vladislav Kopzon

Eli Sorin

Yifat Ben-Shahar

Nir Haber

Izhar Hofshi

Radia Joy Perlman

Arvind Srinivasan

Igor G Muttik

Alex Nayshtut

Ohad Falik

Parthasarathy Sarangam

Vadim Sukhomlinov

Yadong Li

Ilango S Ganga

Kent C Lusted

Simoni Ben-Michael

Andreas Kleen

Douglas Boom

Daniel Daly

Nrupal R Jani

Aviad J Wertheimer

Ronen Aharon Hyatt

Myron Loewen

Janusz Jurski

Mariusz Oriol

Piotr Uminski

Boris Kleiman

Miles J Penner

Ronald Frederick Barbee

Nadav Turbovich

Lev Faerman

Richard Marian Thomaiyar

Nishantkumar Shah

Akeem Abodunrin

Suyog Kulkarni

Jacob Twersky

Liron Elmaleh

Gregory Cummins

Danny Volkind

Vivek Kashyap

Jerry Backer

Piotr Matuszczak

Patrick Schoeller

Douglas D Boom

Ronald F Barbee

An apparatus, a method, and a computer program for generating data packets according to a transport protocol from an application buffer comprising a plurality of data streams is provided. The apparatus comprises an input circuit configured to receive metadata comprising at least one of information about data packet types supported by the transport protocol, information about an offset and a length of the supported data packet types, and information about possible stream header start positions, possible payload start positions and possible offsets in the data streams. Further, the apparatus comprises a parsing circuit configured to identify offsets in an application buffer as possible segmentation points based on the metadata, to segment the application buffer at the possible segmentation points into segments for data packets, and to generate data packets according to the transport protocol based on the segments. Furthermore, an apparatus, a method and a computer program for processing the application buffer is provided.

Concept for segmenting an application buffer into data packets

Disclosed is a mechanism for maintaining a single lookup table entry for symmetric/bidirectional flows. Multiple recipes are stored for each flow. A recipe is employed to select address information from an incoming packet header based on the packet's direction. The address information and an index are employed to generate a lookup key to find the single lookup table entry with the pertinent switching information. The recipe further indicates action pointers in the lookup table entry that are specific to direction. The action pointers point to an address in an action table that contains instructions for actions that are applied to the packet during switching based on the packet's direction.

Single lookup entry for symmetric flows

Examples described herein relate to a network interface device comprising: a device interface; at least one processor; a direct memory access (DMA) device; and a packet processing circuitry. In some examples, the at least one processor, when operational, is configured to: in connection with a first operation: perform a format translation of a first descriptor from a first format associated with an emulated device to a second format associated with the packet processing circuitry and provide, to the packet processing circuitry, the translated first descriptor. In some examples, the at least one processor, when operational, is configured to: in connection with a second operation: perform a descriptor format translation of a second descriptor from the second format associated with the packet processing circuitry to the first format associated with the emulated software device and provide, to the emulated device, the translated second descriptor.

Virtual device portability

Methods and apparatus for software-controlled active-backup mode of link aggregation for RDMA and virtual functions. A Network Interface Controller (NIC) includes hardware implementing first and second physical functions (PFs) including transmit and receive resources to support data transfers via first and second ports. A bonding group is created with the first and second PFs. The first PF as an active PF and used for primary data transfers while implementing the second PF as a backup PF. On a link or port failure of the active PF, the bonding group is reconfigured to employ transmit and receive resources of the backup PF such that those resources are shared with the active PF. Data transfers are then performed using the shared resources of the active PF and the backup PF. Embodiments may support RDMA data transfers using PF bonding and the solution may be implemented in virtualized environments including virtual machines (VMs) in a manner transparent to the VMs.

Software-controlled active-backup mode of link aggregation for RDMA and virtual functions

Examples described herein relate to a device indicating a number of available interrupt messages that is more than physical resources available to store the available interrupt messages and allocating one or more physical resources to provide one or more interrupt messages based on allocation of the one or more interrupt messages to a destination entity. The destination entity can request a maximum permitted allocation of interrupt messages regardless of interrupt message use level. The destination entity can request a maximum permitted allocation of interrupt messages regardless of interrupt message use level and allocate the requested maximum permitted allocation of interrupt messages for use in a configuration region of a device. However, based on unavailability of a physical resource to store a first interrupt message, allocation of the first interrupt message to a destination entity may not be permitted.

Dynamic interrupt provisioning

Methods and apparatus for scalable MCTP infrastructure. A system is split into independent MCTP domains, wherein each MCTP domain uses Endpoint Identifiers (EIDs) for endpoint devices within the MCTP domain in a manner similar to conventional MCTP operations. A new class of MCTP devices (referred to as a Domain Controllers) is provided to enable inter-domain communication and communication with global devices. Global traffic originators or receivers like a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller), Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU), Smart NIC (Network Interface Card), Debugger, or PROT (Platform Root or Trust) discover and establish two-way communication through the Domain Controllers to any of the devices in the target domain(s). The Domain Controllers are configured to implement tunneled connections between global devices and domain endpoint devices. The tunneled connections may employ encapsulated messages with outer and inner headers and/or augmented MCTP messages with repurposed fields used to store source and destination EIDs.

Scalable MCTP infrastructure

Packets received non-contiguously from a network are processed by a network interface controller by coalescing received packet payload into receive buffers on a receive buffer queue and writing descriptors associated with the receive buffers for a same flow consecutively in a receive completion queue. System performance is optimized by reusing a small working set of provisioned receive buffers to minimize the memory footprint of memory allocated to store packet data. The remainder of the provisioned buffers are in an overflow queue and can be assigned to the network interface controller if the small working set of receive buffers is not sufficient to keep up with the received packet rate. The receive buffer queue can be refilled based on either timers or when the number of buffers in the receive buffer queue is below a configurable low watermark.

Apparatus and method for buffer management for receive segment coalescing

Examples described herein relate to an apparatus including at least one memory and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one memory, the at least one processor to: allocate a scheduler to an egress port and based on unavailability of an egress port, allocate the scheduler to a second egress port to cause any packet allocated to a transmit queue associated with the scheduler to be transmitted using the second egress port. In some examples, a system receives a packet at a port on a network interface, associates a port group with the packet, determines a receive queue for the packet, and copies the packet to the determined receive queue. The port group can be adjusted to remove the port or to add a second port.

Queue-to-port allocation

Technologies for control plane separation at a network interface controller (NIC) of a compute device configured to transmit, by a resource of the compute device, commands to a physical function managed by a network interface controller (NIC) of the compute device. The NIC is further to establish a data plane separate from a control plane, wherein the control plane comprises one of the trusted control path and the untrusted control path. Additionally, the resource is configured to transmit the commands via one of the trusted control path or the untrusted control path based on a trust level associated with the physical function. Other embodiments are described herein.

Technologies for control plane separation in a network interface controller

An apparatus, a method and a computer program for generating data packets according to a transport protocol from an application buffer comprising a plurality of data streams is provided. The apparatus comprises an input circuit configured to receive metadata comprising at least one of information about data packet types supported by the transport protocol, information about an offset and a length of the supported data packet types, and information about possible stream header start positions, possible payload start positions and possible offsets in the data streams. Further, the apparatus comprises a parsing circuit configured to identify offsets in an application buffer as possible segmentation points based on the metadata, to segment the application buffer at the possible segmentation points into segments for data packets, and to generate data packets according to the transport protocol based on the segments. Furthermore, an apparatus, a method and a computer program for processing the application buffer is provided.

Technologies for I/O device virtualization include a computing device with an I/O device that includes a physical function, multiple virtual functions, and multiple assignable resources, such as I/O queues. The physical function assigns an assignable resource to a virtual function. The computing device configures a page table mapping from a virtual function memory page located in a configuration space of the virtual function to a physical function memory page located in a configuration space of the physical function. The virtual function memory page includes a control register for the assignable resource, and the physical function memory page includes another control register for the assignable resource. A value may be written to the control register in the virtual function memory page. A processor of the computing device translates the virtual function memory page to the physical function memory page using the page mapping. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Technologies for flexible virtual function queue assignment

Techniques are described that can be used to enable a transfer of an operating system from one machine to another. The transfer permits the operating system to be available to the target machine at buffers that are accessible to one or more application or other logic. In some implementations, information related to an operating system migration is stored in a buffer that is accessible to an application that is to use the information and thereby avoids a copy of such information from an intermediate buffer to an application buffer.

Techniques to copy a virtual machine

Generally, this disclosure provides systems, methods and computer readable media for management of sockets and device queues for reduced latency packet processing. The method may include maintaining a unique-list comprising entries identifying device queues and an associated unique socket for each of the device queues, the unique socket selected from a plurality of sockets configured to receive packets; busy-polling the device queues on the unique-list; receiving a packet from one of the plurality of sockets; and updating the unique-list in response to detecting that the received packet was provided by an interrupt processing module. The updating may include identifying a device queue associated with the received packet; identifying a socket associated with the received packet; and if the identified device queue is not on one of the entries on the unique-list, creating a new entry on the unique-list, the new entry comprising the identified device queue and the identified socket.

Socket management with reduced latency packet processing

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Eliel Louzoun