Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.

Sayantan Sur

Shahaf Shuler

Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones

Ariel Shahar

Ilan Pardo

Avi Urman

Omri Kahalon

Saar Tarnopolsky

Omer Cohen

Barak Biber

A kernel comprising at least one dynamically configurable parameter is submitted by a processor. The kernel is to be executed at a later time. Data is received after the kernel has been submitted. The at least one dynamically configurable parameter of the kernel is updated based on the data. The kernel having the at least one updated dynamically configurable parameter is executed after the at least one dynamically configurable parameter has been updated.

Kernel optimization and delayed execution

A method includes receiving a network packet into a hardware pipeline of a network device; parsing and retrieving information of the network packet; determining, by the hardware pipeline, a packet-processing action to be performed by matching the information to a data structure of a set of flow data structures; sending, by the hardware pipeline, an action request to a programmable core, the action request being populated with data to trigger the programmable core to execute a hardware thread to perform a job, which is associated with the packet-processing action and that generates contextual data; retrieving the contextual data updated by the programmable core; and integrating the contextual data into performing the packet-processing action.

Programmable core integrated with hardware pipeline of network interface device

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