Hardware acceleration method and related device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10620986-B2
Application number	US-201715817264-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 19, 2017
Priority date	May 19, 2015
Publication date	Apr 14, 2020
Grant date	Apr 14, 2020

Abstract

The present invention provides a hardware acceleration method and a related device. The hardware acceleration method includes: determining, by a functional entity, a requirement of a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function VNF; determining, by the functional entity, a target virtualized infrastructure manager VIM; and deploying, by the functional entity, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto a target host in a management domain of the target VIM by using the target VIM. In the present invention, the functional entity deploys the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host whose hardware matching resource meets the requirement in the to-be-accelerated VNF, so that the type of the hardware acceleration resource required in the to-be-accelerated VNF can match a type of the hardware matching resource of the target host, and the hardware matching resource of the target host can meet an acceleration requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF, thereby effectively improving performance of the to-be-accelerated VNF.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A hardware acceleration method, comprising:
determining, by a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), a requirement of a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF), wherein the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF includes information indicating a type of a required hardware acceleration resource, and indicating a size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF;
determining, by the NFVO, that a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) corresponding to a target host is a target VIM, wherein a hardware resource of the target host meets the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF and the target host is in a management domain of the target VIM; and
deploying, by the NFVO, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host by using the target VIM.

2. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining, by an NFVO, a requirement of a to-be-accelerated VNF comprises:
determining, by the NFVO, a requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF according to a target field in a VNF descriptor template corresponding to the to-be-accelerated VNF.

3. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining, by the NFVO, that a VIM corresponding to a target host is a target VIM comprises:
receiving, by the NFVO, hardware acceleration information sent by each VIM in the management domain of the NFVO, wherein the hardware acceleration information comprises information indicating a size of a hardware resource reported by the VIM, wherein the reported size of the hardware resource is a size of a hardware resource of a host in a management domain of each VIM such that the host has a largest hardware resource;
determining, by the NFVO, a size of a target hardware matching resource, wherein the size of the target hardware matching resource is the largest among the hardware resource sizes reported by each VIM in the management domain of the NFVO;
determining, by the NFVO, that a host corresponding to the size of the target hardware matching resource is the target host; and
determining, by the NFVO, that a VIM corresponding to the target host is the target VIM.

4. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 1 , wherein the deploying, by the NFVO, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host in a management domain of the target VIM by using the target VIM comprises:
sending, by the NFVO, first request information to the target VIM, wherein the first request information is configured to request the target VIM to deploy the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host;
or
sending, by the NFVO, first indication information to a virtualized network function manager (VNFM), wherein the first indication information is configured for the VNFM to send a second request information to the target VIM, the second request information is configured to cause the target VIM to deploy the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host in the management domain of the target VIM.

5. A hardware acceleration method, comprising:
determining, by a virtualized network function manager (VNFM), a requirement of a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF), wherein the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF includes information indicating a type of a required hardware acceleration resource, and indicating a size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF in a management domain of a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO);
determining, by the VNFM, that a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) corresponding to a target host is a target VIM, wherein a hardware resource of the target host meets the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF and the target host is in a management domain of the VIM; and
deploying, by the VNFM, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host by using the target VIM.

6. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 5 , wherein the determining, by a VNFM, a requirement of a to-be-accelerated VNF comprises:
determining, by the VNFM, a requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF according to a target field in a VNF descriptor template corresponding to the to-be-accelerated VNF.

7. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 5 , wherein the determining, by the VNFM, that a VIM corresponding to a target host is a target VIM comprises:
sending, by the VNFM, the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF to the NFVO;
sending, by the VNFM, third request information to the NFVO, wherein the third request information is configured to cause the NFVO to determine that a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) corresponding to the target host is a target VIM, according to the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF and the third request information, and to determine that a hardware resource of the target host meets the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF; and
receiving, by the VNFM, second indication information sent by the NFVO, wherein the second indication information indicates the target VIM.

8. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 5 , wherein the deploying, by the VNFM, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host in a management domain of the target VIM by using the target VIM comprises:
sending, by the VNFM, fourth request information to the target VIM to cause the target VIM to deploy the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target by using the target VIM.

9. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the processor, the programming instructions instruct the processor to:
determine a requirement of a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF), wherein the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF includes information indicating a type of a required hardware acceleration resource, and indicating a size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF;
determine that a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) corresponding to a target host is a target VIM, wherein a hardware resource of the target host meets the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF and the target host is in a management domain of the target VIM; and
deploy the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host by using the target VIM.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the programming instructions instruct the processor to determine a requirement of a to-be-accelerated VNF according to a target field in a VNF descriptor template corresponding to the to-be-accelerated VNF.

11. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the apparatus is in a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO).

12. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the programming instructions instruct the processor to:
receive hardware acceleration information sent by each VIM in the management domain of the NFVO, wherein the hardware acceleration information comprises information indicating a size of hardware resource reported by the VIM, wherein the reported size of the hardware resource is a size of hardware resource of a host in a management domain of each VIM such that the host has a largest hardware resource;
determine a size of a target hardware matching resource, wherein the size of the target hardware matching resource is the largest among the hardware resource sizes reported by each VIM in the management domain of the NFVO;
determine that a host corresponding to the size of the target hardware matching resource is the target host; and
determine that a VIM corresponding to the target host is the target VIM.

13. The apparat

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Peng Jun
• Peng Zhan
• Yang Xu

Classifications

• G06F2009/45579

  I/O management, e.g. providing access to device drivers or storage · CPC title

• G06F2009/45595

  Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances · CPC title

• H04L41/5054

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title

• G06F2009/4557

  Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing · CPC title

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title