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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Douglas M. Freimuth, New York, NY (US);
David P. Olshefski, New York, NY (US);
John M. Tracey, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Dinesh C. Verma, New Castle, NY (US);
Charles P. Wright, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A downstream element in a pipeline processing a network flow receives a first request and executes an indexing function to compute an index into a control block for storing state information associated with the data packet. The downstream element transmits a request to an upstream element to include the index as a tag in one or more subsequent data packets that comprises the plurality of network fields and the associated values. Subsequent data packet may be received at the downstream element with the tag having the index information. The downstream element may process the subsequent data packet based on the tag without having to execute the indexing function on the subsequent data packet.