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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2017
Innovium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
William Brad Matthews, San Jose, CA (US);
Puneet Agarwal, Cupertino, CA (US);
Meg Lin, Saratoga, CA (US);
Rupa Budhia, San Jose, CA (US);
Innovium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for assigning paths to network packets. The path assignment techniques utilize path state information and/or other criteria to determine whether to route a packet along a primary candidate path selected for the packet, or one or more alternative candidate paths selected for the packet. According to an embodiment, network traffic is at least partially balanced by redistributing only a portion of the traffic that would have been assigned to a given primary path. Move-eligibility criteria are applied to traffic to determine whether a given packet is eligible for reassignment from a primary path to an alternative path. The move-eligibility criteria determine which portion of the network traffic to move and which portion to allow to proceed as normal. In an embodiment, the criteria and functions used to determine whether a packet is redistributable are adjusted over time based on path state information.