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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2018
Sonicwall Us Holdings Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
John E. Gmuender, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Iosif Harutyunov, Cupertino, CA (US);
Manish Mathur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ilya Minkin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Huy Minh Nguyen, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
SONICWALL INC., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for packet processing on a multi-core processor. According to one embodiment of the invention, a first set of one or more processing cores are configured to include the capability to process packets belonging to a first set of one or more packet types, and a second set of one or more processing cores are configured to include the capability to process packets belonging to a second set of one or more packet types, where the second set of packet types is a subset of the first set of packet types. Packets belonging to the first set of packet types are processed at a processing core of either the first or second set of processing cores. Packets belonging to the second set of packet types are processed at a processing core of the first set of processing cores.