Hardware acceleration method and related device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11068298-B2
Application number	US-202016829871-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2020
Priority date	May 19, 2015
Publication date	Jul 20, 2021
Grant date	Jul 20, 2021

Abstract

The present disclosure 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:
receiving, by a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM), first request information from a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), wherein the first request information is configured to request the VIM to deploy a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF) onto a host in a management domain of the VIM, wherein a hardware resource of the host meets a requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF, and 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; and
deploying, by the VIM, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the host in the management domain of the VIM.

2. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 1 , wherein the size of the hardware resource of the host is greater than the size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF, and a type of the hardware resource is consistent with the type of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF.

3. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
sending, by the VIM, hardware acceleration information to the NFVO, wherein the hardware acceleration information comprises information indicating a size of a hardware resource reported by the VIM, wherein the size the of the hardware resource is a size of a hardware resource of a host having a largest hardware resource in the management domain of the VIM.

4. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 3 , wherein the size reported by the VIM is the largest among the hardware resource sizes reported by each VIM in the management domain of the NFVO.

5. A hardware acceleration method, comprising:
receiving, by a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM), a second request message from a virtualized network function manager (VNFM), wherein the second request message is configured to cause the VIM to deploy a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF) onto a host in a management domain of the VIM, wherein a hardware resource of the host meets a requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF, and 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; and
deploying, by the VIM, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the host in the management domain of the target VIM.

6. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 5 , wherein the size of the hardware resource of the host is greater than the size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF, and a type of the hardware resource is consistent with the type of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF.

7. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 5 , wherein the method further comprises:
sending, by the VIM, hardware acceleration information to a NFVO, wherein the hardware acceleration information comprises information indicating a size of a hardware resource reported by the VIM, wherein the size the of the hardware resource is a size of a hardware resource of a host having a largest hardware resource in the management domain of the VIM.

8. The hardware acceleration method according to claim 7 , wherein the size reported by the VIM is the largest among the hardware resource sizes reported by each VIM in the management domain of the NFVO.

9. A virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM), 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:
receive first request information from a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), wherein the first request information is configured to request the VIM to deploy a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF) onto a host in a management domain of the VIM, wherein a hardware resource of the host meets a requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF, and 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; and
deploy the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the host in the management domain of the VIM.

10. The VIM according to claim 9 , wherein the size of the hardware resource of the host is greater than the size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF, and a type of the hardware resource is consistent with the type of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF.

11. The VIM according to claim 9 , wherein the programming instructions instruct the processor to:
send hardware acceleration information to the NFVO, wherein the hardware acceleration information comprises information indicating a size of a hardware resource reported by the VIM, wherein the size the of the hardware resource is a size of a hardware resource of a host having a largest hardware resource in the management domain of the VIM.

12. The VIM according to claim 11 , wherein the size reported by the VIM is the largest among the hardware resource sizes reported by each VIM in the management domain of the NFVO.

13. A virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM), 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:
receive a second request message from a virtualized network function manager (VNFM), wherein the second request message is configured to cause the VIM to deploy a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF) onto a host in a management domain of the VIM, wherein a hardware resource of the host meets a requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF, and 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; and
deploy the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the host in the management domain of the VIM.

14. The VIM according to claim 13 , wherein the size of the hardware resource of the host is greater than the size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF, and a type of the hardware resource is consistent with the type of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF.

15. The VIM according to claim 13 , the programming instructions instruct the processor to:
send hardware acceleration information to the NFVO, wherein the hardware acceleration information comprises information indicating a size of a hardware resource reported by the VIM, wherein the size the of the hardware resource is a size of a hardware resource of a host having a largest hardware resource in the management domain of the VIM.

16. The VIM according to claim 15 , wherein the size reported by the VIM is the largest among the hardware resource sizes reported by each VIM in the management domain of the NFVO.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Peng Jun
• Peng Zhan
• Yang Xu

Classifications

• G06F9/44 Primary

  Arrangements for executing specific programs · CPC title

• H04L41/12

  Discovery or management of network topologies · CPC title

• H04L41/40

  using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities · CPC title

• G06F9/445

  Program loading or initiating (bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57) · CPC title

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title