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Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aditya Krishna Sonthy, Milpitas, CA (US);

Alexander N. Tessmer, San Jose, CA (US);

Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Campbell, CA (US);

Samuel Jacob, Fremont, CA (US);

Boon Seong Ang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Hongwei Zhu, Mountain View, CA (US);

Rajeev Nair, Newark, CA (US);

Assignee:

Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/72 (2013.01); H04L 67/2842 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04L 2212/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance flow operations on a host computing system. In one implementation, a virtual switch on a host identifies a packet from a virtual node. In response to identifying the packet, the virtual switch determines whether the packet corresponds to a cached result action based on traits of the packet. If the packet corresponds to a cached result action, then the virtual switch may process the packet in accordance with the cached result action. In contrast, if the packet does not correspond to a cached result action, then the virtual switch may process the packet in accordance with first flow operations to determine a result action, and cache the result action for use with future packets.


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