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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Dayavanti G. Kamath, Bangalore, IN;
Tejas S. Nevrekar, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
One or more processors receive a notification of a failure of a first delivery device of a plurality of delivery devices of an OpenFlow network, to deliver a data packet. One or more processors determine the flows of flow tables belonging to delivery devices that are affected as a result of the failure of the first delivery device. The flows are determined by accessing an index of flow mappings maintained in cache storage in which at least one of the affected flows includes a pattern of information fields and actions that match a pattern of information fields and actions of the data packet, and one or more processors send instructions to the delivery devices of the network to perform an asynchronous activity on respective flow tables of the delivery devices that include the flows affected as a result of the failure of the first delivery device.