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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2000
Vipul Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
N.s.s. Narasimha Rao, Kakinada, IN;
Alka Agrawal, Karnataka, IN;
Subrata Sarkar, Bangalore, IN;
Kumar Subramanian, Bangalore, IN;
Himanshu Shukla, Bangalore, IN;
Vipul Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
N.S.S. Narasimha Rao, Kakinada, IN;
Alka Agrawal, Karnataka, IN;
Subrata Sarkar, Bangalore, IN;
Kumar Subramanian, Bangalore, IN;
Himanshu Shukla, Bangalore, IN;
Novell, Inc., Provo, UT (US);
Abstract
A method and system is provided for balancing work load for a plurality of computer processors in a multiple processor computer system. In such a system, there are a plurality of packets to be processed. First, a plurality of hash buckets are generated and each packet is assigned to a bucket by performing a predetermined hash function. The different hash buckets are then assigned to the processors based on the workload of all the processors. In connection with processing connections with a timer thread, a plurality of connections are processed with a plurality of timer threads. A plurality of hash buckets are provided, and each connection is mapped to one of the hash buckets. Further, each hash bucket is assigned to a processor timer thread based on a workload thereof.