Scalable and flexible communication networks increasingly conduct the packet processing
for Network Functions (NFs) in General Purpose Computing (GPC) platforms. The …

Direct device assignment enhances the performance of guest virtual machines by allowing
them to communicate with I/O devices without host involvement. But even with device …

Nested virtualization, the ability to run a virtual machine inside another virtual machine, is
increasingly important because of the need to deploy virtual machines running software …

Production systems continuously need to become more cost-efficient and flexible. Hardware-
based programmable logic controllers, while widely used in the industry, do not offer the …

High performance networking interface cards (NIC) have become essential networking
devices in commercial cloud computing environments. Therefore, efficient and scalable I/O …

Single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) has become the de facto standard of network
virtualization in cloud infrastructure. Owing to the high interrupt frequency and heavy cost …

Techniques disclosed herein provide an approach for using receive side scaling (RSS)
offloads from a physical network interface controller (PNIC) to improve the performance of a …

High performance networking interfaces, such as 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GE), are now
widely deployed in commercial Cloud computing environments. Virtualization is a standard …

Today's mainstream virtualization systems comprise of two cooperative components: a
kernel-resident driver that accesses virtualization hardware and a user-level helper process …

The increasing requirements of intensive interoperaterbility among the distributed nodes
desiderate the high performance network connections, owing to the substantial growth of …