Selective retransmission of packets

    公开(公告)号:US11870590B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-09

    申请号:US17107990

    申请日:2020-12-01

    CPC分类号: H04L1/1829 G06F15/17331

    摘要: A method for data transfer includes transmitting a sequence of data packets from a first computer over a network to a second computer in a single RDMA data transfer transaction. Upon receipt of a second packet in the sequence without previously having received the first packet, the second computer sends a NAK packet over the network to the first computer, indicating that the first packet was not received. A retransmission mode is selected responsively to the type of the transaction, such that when the transaction is of a first type, the first packet is retransmitted from the first computer to the second computer in response to the NAK packet without retransmitting the second packet, and when the transaction is of a second type, both the first and second packets are retransmitted from the first computer to the second computer in response to the NAK packet.

    Secure in-service firmware update

    公开(公告)号:US11741232B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-29

    申请号:US17163599

    申请日:2021-02-01

    IPC分类号: G06F21/57 G06F8/65 G06F9/445

    摘要: A computer system includes a volatile memory and at least one processor. The volatile memory includes a protected storage segment (PSS) configured to store firmware-authentication program code for authenticating firmware of the computer system. The at least one processor is configured to receive a trigger to switch to a given version of the firmware, to obtain, in response to the trigger, a privilege to access the PSS, to authenticate the given version of the firmware by executing the firmware-authentication program code from the PSS, to switch to the given version of the firmware upon successfully authenticating the given version, and to take an alternative action upon failing to authenticate the given version.

    Memory Access Tracking Using a Peripheral Device

    公开(公告)号:US20230133439A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US17536141

    申请日:2021-11-29

    摘要: A compute node includes a memory, a processor and a peripheral device. The memory is to store memory pages. The processor is to run software that accesses the memory, and to identify one or more first memory pages that are accessed by the software in the memory. The peripheral device is to directly access one or more second memory pages in the memory of the compute node using Direct Memory Access (DMA), and to notify the processor of the second memory pages that are accessed using DMA. The processor is further to maintain a data structure that tracks both (i) the first memory pages as identified by the processor and (ii) the second memory pages as notified by the peripheral device.

    Flexible steering
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11323372B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-03

    申请号:US16853783

    申请日:2020-04-21

    IPC分类号: H04L45/7453 H04L47/22

    摘要: In one embodiment, a network device includes an interface configured to receive a data packet including a header section, at least one parser to parse the data of the header section yielding a first header portion and a second header portion, a packet processing engine to fetch a first match-and-action table, match a first index having a corresponding first steering action entry in the first match-and-action table responsively to the first header portion, compute a cumulative lookup value based on the first header portion and the second header portion responsively to the first steering action entry, fetch a second match-and-action table responsively to the first steering action entry, match a second index having a corresponding second steering action entry in the second match-and-action table responsively to the cumulative lookup value, and steering the packet responsively to the second steering action entry.

    Adjusting rate of outgoing data requests for avoiding incast congestion

    公开(公告)号:US11102129B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-24

    申请号:US16559640

    申请日:2019-09-04

    摘要: A network adapter includes circuitry and one or more ports. The ports connect to a communication network including multiple network elements. The circuitry accesses outbound messages that are pending to be sent over the communication network to multiple remote nodes via the ports. At least some of the outbound messages request the remote nodes to send respective amounts of data back to the network adapter. Based on the amounts of data requested by the outbound messages, the circuitry forecasts a bandwidth of inbound response traffic, which is expected to traverse a selected network element in response to the outbound messages toward the network adapter, determines a schedule for transmitting the outbound messages to the remote nodes so that the forecasted bandwidth meets a bandwidth supported by the selected network element, and transmits the outbound messages to the remote nodes in accordance with the determined schedule.

    Reordering avoidance for flows during transition between slow-path handling and fast-path handling

    公开(公告)号:US10824469B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-03

    申请号:US16202132

    申请日:2018-11-28

    IPC分类号: G06F9/48 G06F9/38 G06F9/30

    摘要: A computer system includes one or more processors, one or more hardware accelerators, and control circuitry. The processors are configured to run software that executes tasks in a normal mode. The accelerators are configured to execute the tasks in an accelerated mode. The control circuitry is configured to receive one or more flows of tasks for execution by the processors and the accelerators, assign one or more initial tasks of each flow for execution by the processors, assign subsequent tasks of each flow for execution by the accelerators, and verify, for each flow, that the accelerators do not execute the subsequent tasks of the flow until the processors have fully executed the initial tasks of the flow.

    Fast Detection and Retransmission of Dropped Last Packet in a Flow

    公开(公告)号:US20190132085A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US15796803

    申请日:2017-10-29

    IPC分类号: H04L1/08 H04L1/16 H04L1/18

    摘要: A network element processes a data flow in accordance with a communications protocol in which respective incremental sequence numbers are assigned to segments of the data flow. The segments are sent from the network element to the other network element in order of the sequence numbers, and respective acknowledgements are received from the other network element. The acknowledgements may include the highest sequence number of the segments of the flow that were received in the other network element. After transmitting the last segment of the data flow an additional segment is sent to the other network element. When it is determined from an acknowledgement of the additional segment that the last segment of the data flow was not received by the other network element, the last segment is retransmitted.