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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Francisco J. Alanis, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Omar Cardona, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Shaival J. Chokshi, Round Rock, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and technique for data flow affinity for heterogeneous virtual machines includes: connecting first and second logical partitions to a shared virtual adapter, the first logical partition having a maximum receive unit (MRU) different than a MRU of the second logical partition; responsive to receiving data by the shared virtual adapter destined for the first or second logical partitions, performing transmission control protocol (TCP) segmentation offload processing of the data by the shared virtual adapter utilizing the MRU of the first logical partition as the transmission unit for data destined for the first logical partition and utilizing the MRU of the second logical partition as the transmission unit for data destined for the second logical partition; and disabling large receive offload (LRO) processing of data by a physical adapter if either of the first or second logical partitions does not support LRO.