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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2006
Sunay Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Tim P. Marsland, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Nicolas G. Droux, Rio Rancho, NM (US);
Sunay Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Tim P. Marsland, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Nicolas G. Droux, Rio Rancho, NM (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling bandwidth including receiving and classifying a packet, sending the packet to a hardware receive ring based on a classification of the packet, and sending, in accordance with an operating mode, the packet to a software receive ring, sending the packet from the software receive ring to a virtual network interface card, where the virtual network interface card is associated with a virtual machine, where the operating mode is adjusted to control the bandwidth consumed by the virtual machine.