Device, system and method for adaptive payload compression in a network fabric

Abstract

A computing device, method and system to implement an adaptive compression scheme in a network fabric. The computing device may include a memory device and a fabric controller coupled to the memory device. The fabric controller may include processing circuitry having logic to communicate with a plurality of peer computing devices in the network fabric. The logic may be configured to implement the adaptive compression scheme to select, based on static information and on dynamic information relating to a peer computing device of the plurality of peer computing devices, a compression algorithm to compress a data payload destined for the peer computing device, and to compress the data payload based on the compression algorithm. The static information may include information on data payload decompression supported methods of the peer computing device, and the dynamic information may include information on link load at the peer computing device. The compression may further take into consideration QoS requirements of the data payload. The computing device may send the data payload to the peer computing device after compressing.