Service plane optimizations with learning-enabled flow identification

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that optimize data flow in a computer network, the instructions, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

• storing identifying information about a data packet being transmitted in the computer network into shared memory to yield stored identifying information, wherein the shared memory is accessible only between a data plane of the computer network where the data packet originates and a service plane of the computer network associated with an application hosted on the computer network that is receiving the data packet;
• evaluating the data packet at the application;
• and
• transmitting the identifying information back to the data plane to yield data plane identifying information, wherein the data plane identifying information is matched with the stored identifying information in the shared memory to identify the data packet that will be processed.

A system optimizing data flow in a computer network, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the system, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• storing identifying information about a data packet being transmitted in a computer network into shared memory to yield stored identifying information, wherein the shared memory is accessible only between a data plane of the computer network where the data packet originates and a service plane of the computer network associated with an application hosted on the computer network that is receiving the data packet;
• evaluating the data packet at the application;
• and
• transmitting the identifying information back to the data plane to yield data plane identifying information, wherein the data plane identifying information is matched with the stored identifying information in the shared memory to identify the data packet that will be processed.