Technologies for Dynamically Allocating Hardware Acceleration Units to Process Data Packets

One or more computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that in response to being executed cause a network device to:

• determine a present compute usage value associated with a workload of a virtual machine;
• determine whether to accelerate the virtual machine as a function of the present compute usage and a compute capability usage limit;
• select in response to a determination to accelerate the virtual machine, an acceleration unit from one or more acceleration units of the network device as a function of a type of the workload;
• and
• allocate at least a portion of the selected acceleration unit to the virtual machine.

A network device comprising means for dynamically allocating one or more acceleration units of the network device, the network device comprising:

• means for determining a present compute usage value associated with a workload of a virtual machine;
• means for determining whether to accelerate the virtual machine as a function of the present compute usage and a compute capability usage limit;
• means for selecting in response to a determination to accelerate the virtual machine, an acceleration unit from the one or more acceleration units as a function of a type of the workload;
• and
• means for allocating at least a portion of the selected acceleration unit to the virtual machine.

A method for dynamically allocating acceleration units of a network device, the method comprising:

• determining, by the network device, a present compute usage value associated with a workload of a virtual machine;
• determining, by the network device, whether to accelerate the virtual machine as a function of the present compute usage and a compute capability usage limit;
• selecting, by the network device, in response to a determination to accelerate the virtual machine, an acceleration unit from the one or more acceleration units as a function of a type of the workload;
• and
• allocating, by the network device, at least a portion of the selected acceleration unit to the virtual machine.