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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2020
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Sambhrama Mundkur, Sammamish, WA (US);
Fengfen Liu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Norman Lam, Sammamish, WA (US);
Andrew Putnam, Seattle, WA (US);
Somesh Chaturmohta, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Firestone, Seattle, WA (US);
Alec Kochevar-Cureton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Distributed computing systems, devices, and associated methods of packet routing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a computing network, a packet at a packet processor of a server. The method also includes matching the received packet with a flow in a flow table contained in the packet processor and determining whether the action indicates that the received packet is to be forwarded to a NIC buffer in the outbound processing path of the packet processor instead of the NIC. The method further includes in response to determining that the action indicates that the received packet is to be forwarded to the NIC buffer, forwarding the received packet to the NIC buffer and processing the packet in the NIC buffer to forward the packet to the computer network without exposing the packet to the main processor.