Fungible, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sureshkumar Nedunchezhian

Srihari Raju Vegesna

Hariharan Lakshminarayanan Thantry

Stimit Kishor Oak

Jean-Marc Frailong

Deepak Goel

John David Huber

Saurin Patel

Rohit Sunkam Ramanujam

Vikas Minglani

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

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Sureshkumar Nedunchezhian