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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2018
Mellanox Technologies Tlv Ltd., Raanana, IL;
Lion Levi, Yavne, IL;
Eitan Zahavi, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Amiad Marelli, Herzliya, IL;
George Elias, Tel Aviv, IL;
Liron Mula, Ramat Gan, IL;
Oded Zemer, Tel Aviv, IL;
Sagi Kuks, Ramat Gan, IL;
Barak Gafni, Campbell, CA (US);
Gal Shohet, Yavne, IL;
Harold Rosenstock, Boxborough, MA (US);
MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES TLV LTD., Ra'anana, IL;
Abstract
Communication apparatus includes multiple ports configured to serve as ingress and egress ports, such that the ingress ports receive packets from a packet data network for forwarding to respective egress ports. The ports include an egress port configured for connection to a network interface controller (NIC) serving multiple physical computing units, which have different, respective destination addresses and are connected to the NIC by different, respective communication channels. Control and queuing logic is configured to queue the packets that are received from the packet data network for forwarding to the multiple physical computing units in different, respective queues according to the destination addresses, and to arbitrate among the queues so as to convey the packets from the queues via the same egress port to the NIC, for distribution to the multiple physical computing units over the respective communication channels.