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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2023
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cheng-Chun Tu, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yifeng Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yi-Hung Wei, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin L. Pfaff, Redwood City, CA (US);
Justin Pettit, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for a forwarding element that receives a packet. The method determines whether the packet matches any flow entries in a first cache that uses a first type of algorithm to identify matching flow entries for packets. When the packet does not match any flow entries in the first cache, the method determines whether the packet matches any flow entries in a second cache that uses a second, different type of algorithm to identify matching flow entries for packets. The method executes a set of actions specified by a flow entry matched by the packet in one of the first and second caches.