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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2017
Marvell Israel (M.i.s.l) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Erez Izenberg, Tel Aviv, IL;
Alon Pais, D. N. Shimshon, IL;
Ruven Torok, Tel Aviv, IL;
Dimitry Melts, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yuval Caduri, Zur-Yigal, IL;
Dmitri Epshtein, Nesher, IL;
Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A network device includes (i) a software forwarding engine, and (ii) a hardware forwarding engine, wherein the software forwarding engine is implemented using a processor executing machine readable instructions. The network device analyzes a header of a received packet to determine i) whether the received packet belongs to any flows of packets already known to the network device, and ii) a packet type of the received packet. The network device selects one of the software forwarding engine or the hardware forwarding engine to process the received packet based on i) whether the received packet belongs to any flows of packets already known to the network device, and ii) the determined packet type, including selecting the software forwarding engine when it is determined that the received packet does not belong to any flow of packets already known to the network device.