Technologies for dynamically selecting resources for virtual switching

One or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, cause circuitry of a computing device to:

• obtain information that indicates a present demand on resources of the computing device, wherein the present demand indicates a demand on processing resources of the computing device to process data associated with received network packets;
• obtain information that indicates a present capacity of acceleration resources of the computing device;
• dynamically determine, based on the present demand and the present capacity of the acceleration resources, one or more hardware acceleration resources included in the acceleration resources to use for operation of a virtual switch, the virtual switch to be configured to permit communication between virtual network functions (VNFs) hosted by the computing device, the communication between the VNFs to be permitted without traversal through a network interface controller coupled with a network external to the computing device;
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• cause at least a portion of the acceleration resources of the computing device to be enabled or disabled based on the dynamically determined one or more hardware acceleration resources to use for operation of the virtual switch.

A method comprising:

• obtaining information that indicates a present demand on resources of a computing device, wherein the present demand indicates a demand on processing resources of the computing device to process data associated with received network packets;
• obtaining information that indicates a present capacity of acceleration resources of the computing device;
• dynamically determining, based on the present demand and the present capacity of the acceleration resources, one or more hardware acceleration resources included in the acceleration resources to use for operation of a virtual switch, the virtual switch to be configured to permit communication between virtual network functions (VNFs) hosted by the computing device, the communication between the VNFs to be permitted without traversal through a network interface controller coupled with a network external to the computing device;
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• causing at least a portion of the acceleration resources of the computing device to be enabled or disabled based on the dynamically determined one or more hardware acceleration resources to use for operation of the virtual switch.