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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2023
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Avinash Kumar Chaurasia, Prayagraj, IN;
Anshuj Garg, Jabalpur, IN;
Uday Pundalik Kurkure, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hari Sivaraman, Livermore, CA (US);
Lan Vu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sairam Veeraswamy, Coimbatore, IN;
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An example computer system includes a hardware platform including a processing unit and software executing on the hardware platform. The software includes a workload and a scheduler, the workload including a network function chain having network functions, the scheduler configured to schedule the network functions for execution on the processing unit. A downstream network function includes a congestion monitor configured to monitor a first receive queue supplying packets to the downstream network function, the congestion monitor configured to compare occupancy of the first receive queue against a queue threshold. An upstream network function including a rate controller configured to receive a notification from the congestion monitor generated in response to the occupancy of the first receive queue exceeding the queue threshold, the rate controller configured to modify a rate of packet flow between a second receive queue and the upstream network function in response to the notification.