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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2008
Applicant:
Aravind Thangavelu, Dublin, CA (US);
Inventor:
Aravind Thangavelu, Dublin, CA (US);
Assignee:
SonicWALL, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of IPsec packets belonging to a single IPsec tunnel are received. Different ones of the plurality of IPseck packets are distributed to different ones of a plurality of processing cores of a network element. At least some of those IPsec packets are processed in parallel and without taking a lock on a Security Association (SA) data structure storing a SA associated with the plurality of IPsec packets. The SA is atomically accessed and atomically updated.