Technologies for accelerated HTTP processing with hardware acceleration

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11757973-B2
Application number	US-202217889678-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 17, 2022
Priority date	Mar 16, 2018
Publication date	Sep 12, 2023
Grant date	Sep 12, 2023

Abstract

Technologies for accelerated HTTP message processing include a computing device having a network controller. The computing device may generate an HTTP message, frame the HTTP message to generate a transport protocol packet such as a TCP/IP packet or QUIC packet, and pass the transport protocol packet to the network controller. The network controller compresses the HTTP header of the HTTP message, encrypts the compressed HTTP message, and transmits the encrypted message to a remote device. The network controller may segment the transport protocol packet into multiple segmented packets. The network controller may receive transport protocol packets that include encrypted HTTP message. The network controller decrypts the encrypted HTTP message to generate a compressed HTTP message, decompresses the HTTP message, and steers the HTTP message to a receive queue based on contents of an HTTP header. The network controller may coalesce multiple transport protocol packets. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computing device comprising:
a network interface controller (NIC) comprising:
compression circuitry to compress a HTTP header of a HTTP message of a transport protocol packet to generate a compressed HTTP message of the transport protocol packet;
cryptographic circuitry to encrypt the compressed HTTP message of the transport protocol packet to generate an encrypted HTTP message of the transport protocol packet;
circuitry to control transmission of the transport protocol packet to a remote computing device; and
segmentation circuitry to segment the transport protocol packet to generate a plurality of segmented transport protocol packets, the circuitry to control transmission of the transport protocol packet to control transmission of the plurality of segmented transport protocol packets in response to the segmentation of the transport protocol packet.

2. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the transport protocol packet comprises a TCP/IP packet, the compression circuitry to compress the HTTP header with an HPACK compression algorithm.

3. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the transport protocol packet comprises a QUIC packet, the compression circuitry to compress the HTTP header with a QPACK compression algorithm.

4. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the HTTP message further includes an HTTP body, the compression circuitry to compress the HTTP body of the HTTP message to generate the compressed HTTP message, and the cryptographic circuitry to encrypt the compressed HTTP message in response to compression of the HTTP body.

5. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the network interface controller further comprises:
a transmit pipeline, the transmit pipeline including an offload ordering, the offload ordering to specify an order of compression and encryption.

6. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the segmentation circuitry is further to report a count of the plurality of segmented transport protocol packets to the computing device in response to the segmentation of the transport protocol packet.

7. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein to compress the HTTP header comprises to compress the HTTP header in response to passing of the transport protocol packet to the network interface controller, to segment the transport protocol packet comprises to segment the transport protocol packet in response to the compression of the HTTP header, the plurality of segmented transport protocol packets comprises the compressed HTTP message, to encrypt the HTTP message comprises to encrypt the plurality of segmented transport protocol packets in response to the segmentation of the transport protocol packet, and to control transmission of the transport protocol packet comprises to control transmission of the plurality of segmented transport protocol packets in response to encryption of the plurality of segmented transport protocol packets.

8. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein to segment the transport protocol packet comprises to segment the transport protocol packet in response to passing of the transport protocol packet to the network interface controller, wherein the plurality of segmented transport protocol packets comprises the HTTP message, and to compress the HTTP header comprises to compress the HTTP header in response to the segmentation of the transport protocol packet.

9. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein to compress the HTTP header comprises to compress the HTTP header in response to passing of the transport protocol packet to the network interface controller, and to segment the transport protocol packet comprises to segment the transport protocol packet in response to the encryption of the HTTP message, wherein the plurality of segmented transport protocol packets comprises the encrypted HTTP message.

10. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, cause a computing device to:
compress, by a network interface controller (NIC) of the computing device, a HTTP header of a HTTP message of a transport protocol packet to generate a compressed HTTP message of the transport protocol packet;
encrypt, by the network interface controller, the compressed HTTP message of the transport protocol packet to generate an encrypted HTTP message of the transport protocol packet;
control, by the network interface controller, transmission of the transport protocol packet to a remote computing device in response to encrypting the compressed HTTP message;
segment, by the network interface controller, the transport protocol packet to generate a plurality of segmented transport protocol packets; and
control, by the network interface controller, transmission of the plurality of segmented transport protocol packets in response to the segmentation of the transport protocol packet.

11. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10 , further comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, cause the computing device to:
configure a transmit pipeline of the network interface controller, wherein the transmit pipeline includes an offload ordering; and
execute, by network interface controller, the transmit pipeline according to the offload ordering, wherein to execute the transmit pipeline comprises to compress the HTTP header, encrypt the HTTP message, and segment the transport protocol packet in an order specified by the offload ordering.

12. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10 , wherein the transport protocol packet comprises a TCP/IP packet, the network interface controller to compress the HTTP header with an HPACK compression algorithm.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10 , wherein the transport protocol packet comprises a QUIC packet, the network interface controller to compress the HTTP header with a QPACK compression algorithm.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10 , wherein the HTTP message further includes an HTTP body, the network interface controller to compress the HTTP body of the HTTP message to generate the compressed HTTP message, and to encrypt the compressed HTTP message in response to compression of the HTTP body.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Sarangam Parthasarathy
• Deval Manasi
• Bowers Gregory

Classifications

• H04L67/02 Primary

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L63/0485

  Networking architectures for enhanced packet encryption processing, e.g. offloading of IPsec packet processing or efficient security association look-up · CPC title

• H04L69/04

  Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC · CPC title

• H04L63/0428

  wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload · CPC title

• H04L69/166

  IP fragmentation; TCP segmentation · CPC title