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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2015
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Xiaogang Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Arularasi Sivasankaran, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jiafeng Zhu, San Ramon, CA (US);
Liufei Wen, Shenzhen, CN;
Yanlan Wei, Shenzhen, CN;
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
System and method for supporting multiple vSwitches on a single host server. In one aspect, embodiments according to the present disclosure include a system and method for supporting multiple vSwitches on a single host server. In one aspect, a set of packet processor threads are instantiated to process data packets on behalf of all vSwitches deployed on the host server. For a data packet received at a port of the host server, a packet processor determines the datapath based on a mapping table and processes the packet according to the rules defined for that datapath. In one aspect, ports (physical and/or virtual) are able to be configured to specified vSwitches dynamically.