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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2015
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen T. Palermo, Chandler, AZ (US);
Thomas E. Willis, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kapil Sood, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ilango S. Ganga, Cupertino, CA (US);
Scott P. Dubal, Beaverton, OR (US);
Pradeepsunder Ganesh, Chandler, AZ (US);
Jesse C. Brandeburg, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and Apparatus for Multi-Stage VM Virtual Network Function and Virtual Service Function Chain Acceleration for NFV and needs-based hardware acceleration. Compute platform hosting virtualized environments including virtual machines (VMs) running service applications performing network function virtualization (NFV) employ Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to provide a hardware-based fast path for performing VM-to-VM and NFV-to-NFV transfers. The FPGAs, along with associated configuration data are also configured to support dynamic assignment and performance of hardware-acceleration to offload processing tasks from processors in virtualized environments, such as cloud data centers and the like.