Fabric Support for Quality of Service
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsKarthik Kumar, Francesc Guim Bernat, Thomas Willhalm, Raj K. Ramanujan, Andrew J. Herdrich
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Abstract
There is disclosed in an example, a fabric interface device, having: a fabric interconnect to communicatively couple to a fabric; service level agreement (SLA) input logic to receive an SLA data structure from a controller, the SLA data structure providing an end-to-end SLA for a resource flow provided by a plurality of resources, and comprising QoS metrics for the resources; and SLA output logic to propagate the QoS metrics out to the resources via the fabric interconnect.
Claims25
A fabric interface device, comprising:
- a fabric interconnect to communicatively couple to a fabric;
- service level agreement (SLA) input logic to receive an SLA data structure from a controller, the SLA data structure providing an end-to-end SLA for a resource flow provided by a plurality of resources, and comprising QoS metrics for the resources;
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- SLA output logic to propagate the QoS metrics out to the resources via the fabric interconnect.
A service level agreement (SLA) enforcement circuit, comprising:
- service level agreement (SLA) input logic to receive an SLA data structure from a controller, the SLA data structure providing an end-to-end SLA for a resource flow provided by a plurality of resources, and comprising QoS metrics for the resources;
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- SLA output logic to propagate the QoS metrics out to the resources via the fabric interconnect.
A method of managing service level agreements (SLAs) on a cloud architecture, comprising:
- communicatively coupling to a fabric interconnect;
- receiving an SLA data structure from a controller, the SLA data structure providing an end-to-end SLA for a resource flow provided by a plurality of resources, and comprising QoS metrics for the resources;
- and
- propagating the QoS metrics out to the resources via the fabric interconnect.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.