On demand scheduling for forwarding a computation result of an endpoint processing unit through a network connecting several endpoint processing units

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a method of scheduling a forwarding of a first result of a first operation executed by the first endpoint processing unit (EPU) to a second EPU along a network connecting a plurality of EPUs. At the first EPU, the method forwards, for the first result, a scheduling request as an in-band control message through the network that forwards between the EPUs data message flows that store results of operations executed by the EPUs. In response to the scheduling request, the method receives a set of scheduling parameters from a control plane agent that obtains the in-band forwarded control message and provides the set of scheduling parameters back to the first EPU in an in-band reply message. The method uses the set of scheduling parameters to forward the result of the operation to the second EPU through the network.

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