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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
May. 06, 2015
Satya Srinivasa Murthy Nittala, Hyderabad, IN;
Srinivasa R. Addepalli, San Jose, MI (US);
Balaji Padnala, Hyderabad, IN;
Satya Srinivasa Murthy Nittala, Hyderabad, IN;
Srinivasa R. Addepalli, San Jose, MI (US);
Balaji Padnala, Hyderabad, IN;
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for steering data packets in a communication network that includes compute nodes having processors for executing application and service virtual machines (VMs), and traffic steering accelerators. A virtual local area network-identifier (VLAN-ID) assignment module generates records and associates the records with the service VMs. Each record includes an input VLAN-ID, an output VLAN-ID, and a port number corresponding to one of the service VMs. A service-chaining module generates chaining rules associated with n-Tuples. A traffic steering controller generates a chain of the records based on the service chaining rules. The traffic steering accelerator then steers the data packets based on the input and output VLAN-IDs included in the data packet.