Intel Corporation

Jeffery G Oliver

John Joseph Browne

Scott P Dubal

James Robert Hearn

Brendan Ryan

Kelly Couch

Daniel K Osawa

Sunku Ranganath

Kevin Liedtke

Maciej Plucinski

David Coyle

Sharada Ashok Shiddibhavi

Pallavi Manaji Kadam

Patrick J McLAUGHLIN

In one embodiment, a system comprises a network interface controller comprising circuitry to determine per-flow analytics information for a plurality of packet flows that are received at the network interface controller and to facilitate differential rate processing of a plurality of packet queues for the plurality of packet flows based on the per-flow analytics information.

NIC priority queue steering and processor unit frequency tuning based on packet flow analytics

Examples described herein relate to a network interface receiving a firmware update from one or more packets. In some examples, the one or more packets indicate a start of a firmware update. In some examples, the network interface can also perform authenticating the start of firmware update indication and based on authentication of the firmware update, permit a firmware update of a device. In some examples, the device is one or more of: Board Management Controller (BMC), central processing unit (CPU), network interface, Ethernet controller, storage controller, memory controller, display engine, graphics processing unit (GPU), accelerator device, or peripheral device. In some examples, an end of firmware update indicator is received in the one or more packets. In some examples, communications are maintained through a port during a firmware change.

Device firmware update techniques

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Jeffery G Oliver