Vmware, Inc.

Ronak Doshi

Boon Seong Ang

Guolin Yang

Peng T Li

Peng Li

Some embodiments provide a method of forwarding data messages to a machine that executes on a host computer and has an associated virtual network interface controller (VNIC) also executing on the host computer. The method retrieves data messages from a queue associated with the VNIC and stores these data messages in a first set of buffer data stores associated with the VNIC. When the first buffer set reaches a threshold congestion level, the method stores data messages subsequently retrieved from the VNIC queue in a second set of buffer data stores associated with the VNIC. In some embodiments, a set of one or more processes executing on the machine retrieves the data messages stored in the buffer sets for processing by these processes or other processes.

High throughput ingress datapath for a virtual machine

The disclosure provides an approach for segmenting a user datagram protocol (UDP) packets. A method includes generating the UDP packet, containing UDP data, at a virtual computing instance (VCI) running on a host machine; sending the UDP packet from the VCI to a hypervisor running on the host machine; after sending the UDP packet to the hypervisor, segmenting the UDP packet into a plurality of UDP segments, wherein each of the plurality of UDP segments includes a portion of the UDP data and a UDP header; and transmitting the plurality of UDP segments, over a network, to a destination of the UDP packet.

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Ronak Doshi