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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Jeffrey Leighton Kennedy, Austin, TX (US);
Timothy M. Lambert, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Managing a subsystem of an information handling system by a data processing unit (DPU), including identifying a first connection between the DPU and a switch; identifying a second connection between the switch and the subsystem; identifying computational capabilities of the DPU, including routing support of the DPU; determining, based on the identified computational capabilities of the DPU, that the DPU supports multi-directional link subdivision; in response to determining that the DPU supports multi-directional link subdivision: configuring the DPU to select the multi-directional link subdivision as an operating mode of the DPU; configuring the switch to invoke a virtual switch hierarchy at the switch to enable communication between the DPU and the subsystem through the virtual switch hierarchy; and after configuring the DPU and the switch, accessing, by the DPU, the subsystem to manage operation of the subsystem.