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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bernard A. King-Smith, Lake Katrine, NY (US);
Kavitha Vittal Murthy Baratakke, Round Rock, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising providing a plurality of assist threads configured to process data units received by a network adapter, wherein each of the plurality of assist threads comprises a queue configured to store data units allocated to the respective assist thread, allocating data units received by the network adapter to assist threads in a subset of the plurality of assist threads according to a first function, wherein the subset includes a first assist thread and does not include a second assist thread, of the plurality of assist threads, monitoring the queues of the assist threads in the subset, and upon determining that a count of data units in the queue of the first assist thread exceeds a first threshold, modifying the first function to include the second assist thread in the subset of the plurality of assist threads.