Fungible, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Stimit Kishor Oak

Srihari Raju Vegesna

Hariharan Lakshminarayanan Thantry

Sureshkumar Nedunchezhian

Deepak Goel

John David Huber

Rohit Sunkam Ramanujam

Vikas Minglani

Jean-Marc Frailong

Saurin Patel

An apparatus includes an output bus configured to store data, a match table, one or more storage devices, and logic. The match table is configured to store a plurality of entries, each entry including a key value, wherein the match table specifies a matching entry in response to being queried by the query data. The one or more storage devices are configured to store operation information for each of the plurality of entries stored in the match table. The operation information specifies one or more instructions associated with each respective entry in the plurality of entries stored in the match table. The logic is configured to receive one or more operands from the output bus, identify one or more instructions from the one or more storage devices, and generate, based on the one or more instructions and the one or more operands, processed data.

Pipeline using match-action blocks

Aspects of this disclosure describes techniques for parsing network packets, processing network packets, and modifying network packets before forwarding the modified network packets over a network. The present disclosure describes a system that, in some examples, parses network packets, generates data describing or specifying attributes of the network packet, identifies operations to be performed when processing a network packet, performs the identified operations, generates data describing or specifying how to modify and/or forward the network packet, modifies the network packet, and outputs the modified packet to another device or system, such as a switch.

Flexible processing of network packets

This disclosure describes techniques that include storing, during parsing of a data unit or a network packet, information (i.e., 'summary information') that identifies how the network packet has been process and/or other aspects of the parsing process. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes parsing a packet header from a data unit, wherein parsing the packet header includes storing in result vector storage each of a plurality of data items derived from the packet header, the result vector storage having a result vector format defining fields within the result vector storage for storing each of the plurality of data items; storing in template storage, for each of the plurality of data items, summary information about the plurality of data items stored in the result vector storage; and processing, by the packet-processing integrated circuit and based on the summary information and the plurality of data items, the network packet.

Realization of a programmable forwarding pipeline through packet header summaries in a data processing unit

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