Dynamic load balancing for multi-core computing environments

A semiconductor die comprising:

• a plurality of processor cores;
• and
• circuitry in the semiconductor die, the circuitry separate from the plurality of processor cores, the circuitry to:
• identify first packets belong to an elephant packet flow;
• queue entries associated with the first packets among different queues of a plurality of queues to distribute the first packets to different cores of the plurality of processor cores, the plurality of queues respectively associated with the plurality of processor cores;
• and
• queue entries associated with second packets different from the first packets in the queues such that packets of the second packets belonging to a same flow are queued to a same queue.

A method comprising:

• identifying first packets belong to an elephant packet flow;
• queuing, with circuitry, entries associated with the first packets among different queues of a plurality of queues to distribute the first packets to different cores of a plurality of processor cores, the plurality of queues respectively associated with the plurality of processor cores;
• and
• queuing, with the circuitry, entries associated with second packets different from the first packets in the queues such that packets of the second packets belonging to a same flow are queued to a same queue of the queues.