Cooperative tls acceleration

Abstract

An integrated circuit and a method for improving performance of cryptographic protocols in the performance of web services by making TLS operations efficient and also solving the unproportioned capacity issues surrounding front-end clusters of a data center is provided. The circuit comprises a peripheral interface configured to communicate with a host system comprising a host processor, a network adaptor configured to receive network packets in a secure session, a chip processor configured to execute a secure communication software stack to process the packets and to generate data load information of the chip processor, and a load balancer configured to acquire a notification in response to scheduling decisions and to redirect the packets based on the notification that a load of one of the host processor or the chip processor is determined to be overloaded.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.