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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2011
Omar Cardona, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Renato J. Recio, Austin, TX (US);
Rakesh Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
Omar Cardona, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Renato J. Recio, Austin, TX (US);
Rakesh Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An approach is provided in which a hardware accelerated bridge executing on a network adapter receives an ingress data packet. The data packet includes a destination MAC address that corresponds to a virtual machine, which interfaces to a software bridge executing on a hypervisor. The hardware accelerated bridge identifies a software bridge table entry that includes the destination MAC address and a virtual function identifier, which identifies a virtual function corresponding to the software bridge. In turn, the hardware accelerated bridge sends the data packet from the hardware accelerated bridge to the software bridge through the identified virtual function.