System and method for facilitating efficient load balancing in a network interface controller (nic)
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsDavid Charles Hewson, Partha Kundu
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Abstract
A network interface controller (NIC) capable of efficient load balancing among the hardware engines is provided. The NIC can be equipped with a plurality of ordering control units (OCUs), a queue, a selection logic block, and an allocation logic block. The selection logic block can determine, from the plurality of OCUs, an OCU for a command from the queue, which can store one or more commands. The allocation logic block can then determine a selection setting for the OCU, select an egress queue for the command based on the selection setting, and send the command to the egress queue.
Claims20
A network interface controller (NIC), comprising:
- a plurality of ordering control units (OCUs);
- a queue to store one or more commands;
- a selection logic block to determine, from the plurality of OCUs, an OCU for a command from the queue;
- and
- an allocation logic block to:
- determine a selection setting for the OCU;
- select an egress queue for the command based on the selection setting;
- and
- send the command to the egress queue.
A method, comprising:
- obtaining, from a queue in a network interface controller (NIC), a command, wherein the NIC comprises a plurality of ordering control units (OCUs);
- determining, from the plurality of OCUs, an OCU for the command obtained from the queue;
- determining a selection setting for the OCU;
- selecting an egress queue for the command based on the selection setting;
- and
- sending the command to the egress queue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.