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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for distributing a number K network connections from a host computer (host) to a smaller number M of core-affined receive queues (RXQs) of a data storage system (DSS) includes, by the host, allocating source network port identifiers (port IDs) from M identifier-defined groups, and using the allocated port IDs for respective network connections to the DSS. The DSS performs receive flow steering of host network traffic among the RXQs based on rules associating the M groups of port IDs with corresponding ones of the RXQs. In an example, port IDs are allocated and assigned to groups based on a modular arithmetic technique, and the DSS uses a modular operation on the port IDs of received network traffic to direct the traffic to respective cores, promoting balanced core utilization as well as alignment of requests to cores via the RXQs, with system performance benefit.