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Title:
HARDWARE ASSISTED VIRTUAL SWITCH
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2019/079960
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Disclosed is a computing apparatus of providing a hardware-assisted virtual switch on a host, including: a hardware virtual switch (vSwitch) circuit; and a hardware virtual host (vHost) circuit, the vHost circuit having an interface driver specific to the hardware vSwitch and configured to provide a vHost data plane to: provide a plurality of hareware queues to communicatively couple the hardware vSwitch to a guest virtual function (VF); and present to a virtual network driver of the guest VF an interface that is backward compatible with a software network interface.

Inventors:
DALY DANIEL (US)
LIANG CUNMING (CN)
WANG JIAN (CN)
ROBERTS MARTIN (GB)
CHIEN SHIH-WEI (CN)
ROGERS GERALD (US)
Application Number:
PCT/CN2017/107442
Publication Date:
May 02, 2019
Filing Date:
October 24, 2017
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Assignee:
INTEL CORP (US)
DALY DANIEL P (US)
LIANG CUNMING (CN)
WANG JIAN (CN)
ROBERTS MARTIN (GB)
CHIEN SHIH WEI (CN)
ROGERS GERALD ALAN (US)
International Classes:
G06F17/30
Foreign References:
CN104094230A2014-10-08
CN103391232A2013-11-13
CN105262668A2016-01-20
CN102549977A2012-07-04
US5909686A1999-06-01
US20170177396A12017-06-22
Other References:
TANG ET AL., IOMMU PARA-VIRTUALIZATION FOR EFFICIENT AND SECURE DMA IN VIRTUAL MACHINES, vol. 10, pages 5938
PFEFFERLE ET AL.: "A Hybrid I/O Virtualization Framework for RDMA-capable Network Interfaces", ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES, vol. 50, pages 17, XP058070749, DOI: 10.1145/2817817.2731200
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
CHINA PATENT AGENT (H.K.) LTD. (CN)
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