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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2014
Marvell Israel (M.i.s.l) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Erez Izenberg, Tel Aviv, IL;
Alon Pais, D. N. Shimshon, IL;
Ruvel Torok, Tel Aviv, IL;
Dimitry Melts, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yuval Caduri, Zur-Yigal, IL;
Dimitri Epshtein, Nesher, IL;
Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A forwarding system comprises a identification engine, a hardware forwarding engine configured to process an ingressing packet, a software forwarding engine configured to process the ingressing packet, and a selection engine. The selection engine is configured to select one of the hardware forwarding engine or the software forwarding engine to process the ingressing packet. The selection is based on at least one of an indication of resource availability or a classification of the ingressing packet based on a priority of a flow as determined by the identification engine. In some embodiments, the selection engine selects different forwarding engines to process different packets of a same flow based on changes in resource availability or classification of the ingressing packet.