US 2016/0239337 A1 · Method and Computing Device for Selecting Protocol Stack

Abstract

A method and computing device for selecting a protocol stack for performing protocol processing on data is presented. The computing device is configured with a hypervisor for managing a first virtual machine. According to the method, when a socket creation instruction sent by the first virtual machine is received, a protocol stack instance is selected from the protocol stack instances provided by the computing device. Then, a socket is created in the selected protocol stack instance according to the socket creation instruction; and a creation result is transmitted to the first virtual machine. Therefore, in a virtualized environment, multiple virtual machines disposed in a same computing device can share a network protocol processing capability, and protocol stacks of the virtual machines achieve load balance.

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Dependent claims

A method, performed by a computing device hosting a first virtual machine, the computing device configured with a hypervisor for managing the first virtual machine, the method comprising:

receiving a socket creation instruction sent by the first virtual machine;
selecting a protocol stack instance from a plurality of protocol stack instances provided by the computing device;
creating a socket in the selected protocol stack instance according to the socket creation instruction;
sending a correspondence between the created socket and an identifier of the protocol stack instance to the first virtual machine;
and
performing, according to the correspondence, data processing based on the created socket in the selected protocol stack instance for the first virtual machine.

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A computing device for hosting a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine, the computing device comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for the first virtual machine and a hypervisor for managing the first virtual machine;
a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform steps including:
sending, from the first virtual machine, a socket creation instruction to the hypervisor;
receiving the socket creation instruction sent by the first virtual machine;
selecting a protocol stack instance from a plurality of protocol stack instances provided by the computing device;
creating a socket in the selected protocol stack instance according to the socket creation instruction;
sending a correspondence between the created socket and an identifier of the protocol stack instance to the first virtual machine;
and
performing, according to the correspondence, data processing based on the created socket in the selected protocol stack instance for the first virtual machine.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and Computing Device for Selecting Protocol Stack

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