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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2015
Varmour Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Choung-Yaw Shieh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marc Woolward, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Yi Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
vArmour Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for using a plurality of processing cores for packet processing in a virtualized network environment are described herein. An example system can comprise a scheduler operable to initiate a processing core of the plurality of processing cores. The processing core is operable to process a plurality of data packets. Based on the determination that the processing core exceeds a threshold processing capacity associated with the processing core, the scheduler sequentially initiates at least one subsequent processing core. The at least one subsequent processing core has a corresponding threshold processing capacity and is operable to process data packets of the plurality of data packets in excess of threshold processing capacities associated with preceding processing cores. Thus, the threshold processing capacities associated with the preceding processing cores are not exceeded.