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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2019
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Teemu Koponen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin Pettit, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Martin Casado, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Bruce Davie, Melbourne, AU;
W. Andrew Lambeth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a forwarding element that detects and handles elephant flows. In detecting, the forwarding element of some embodiments monitors statistics or measurements relating to a data flow. In handling, the forwarding element marks each packet associated with a detected elephant flow in some manner to differentiate it from a packet associated with a mouse flow. Alternatively, the forwarding element of break elephant flows into a number mouse flow by facilitating in sending packets associated with the detected elephant flow along different paths.