Reliable transport offloaded to network devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11936571-B2
Application number	US-202217981255-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2022
Priority date	Feb 3, 2021
Publication date	Mar 19, 2024
Grant date	Mar 19, 2024

Abstract

Examples described herein relate to offload reliable transport management to a network interface device and store packets to be resent, based on received packet receipt acknowledgements (ACKs), into one or more kernel space queues that are also accessible in user space.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor;
at least one memory comprising instructions stored thereon, that if executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
offload reliable transport management to a network interface device and track packets to be resent, based on received packet receipt acknowledgements (ACKs), by one or more kernel space queues that are also accessible in user space.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory comprises instructions stored thereon, that if executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
identify descriptors available for reuse by the one or more kernel space queues that are also accessible in user space.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein content stored in the one or more kernel space queues are also accessible in user space without copying from memory accessible to user space to a memory accessible in kernel space.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
a socket is to connect a service with a driver for the network interface device,
the one or more kernel space queues are associated with the socket, and
at least one of the one or more kernel space queues comprises a waiting queue for received packet receipt ACKs.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more kernel space queues are based on an Address Family of an eXpress Data Path (AF_XDP) queue framework.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
at least one of the one or more kernel space queues is to identify one or more transmitted packets for which one or more ACKs have been received.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is to execute a service that is to request transmission of at least one packet that is subject to receipt of an ACK.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , comprising the network interface device to transmit at least one packet based on a request from the at least one processor.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the reliable transport management comprises store packet receipt ACKs into the one or more kernel space queues that are also accessible in user space.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is to execute a driver to perform the track packets to be resent.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, that if executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
offload reliable transport management to a network interface device and track packets to be resent, based on received packet receipt acknowledgements (ACKs), by one or more kernel space queues that are also accessible in user space.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the one or more kernel space queues that are also accessible in user space are to identify descriptors available for reuse.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein:
a socket is to connect a service with a driver for the network interface device,
the one or more kernel space queues are associated with the socket, and
at least one of the one or more kernel space queues comprises a waiting queue for received packet receipt ACKs.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein:
the one or more kernel space queues are based on an Address Family of an eXpress Data Path (AF_XDP) queue framework.

15. An apparatus comprising:
a network interface device comprising circuitry to perform offloaded reliable transport for packet transmission based on a queue framework comprising one or more kernel space queues that are also accessible in user space, wherein the one or more kernel space queues that are also accessible in user space are to track packets to be resent, based on received packet receipt acknowledgements (ACKs).

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein:
the network interface device is to re-transmit a packet based on non-receipt of an ACK indicating packet receipt.

17. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein:
at least one of the one or more kernel space queues is to identify at least one available descriptor that is available to associate with a received packet.

18. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the network interface device comprises circuitry to:
based on receipt of a packet having a sequence number corresponding to a non-received packet sequence number, provide access to one or more packet payloads associated with one or more received packet sequence numbers.

19. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the network interface device comprises one or more of: a network interface controller (NIC), a smart NIC, an infrastructure processing unit (IPU), and/or a data processing unit (DPU).

20. The apparatus of claim 15 , comprising a server comprising at least one processor that is to execute a service that is to request transmission of at least one packet that is subject to receipt of an ACK.

21. The apparatus of claim 15 , comprising a server comprising at least one processor that is to execute a service that is to process at least one payload of at least one packet associated with a received packet sequence number.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• He Shaopeng
• Liang Cunming
• Yu Jiang
• Yang Ziye
• Yu Ping
• Cui Bo
• Wu Jingjing
• Ma Liang
• Ni Hongjun
• Wen Zhiguo
• Liu Changpeng
• Jain Anjali Singhai
• Daly Daniel
• Li Yadong

Classifications

• H04L63/166

  at the transport layer · 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

• H04L63/0272

  Virtual private networks · CPC title

• H04L49/9057 Primary

  Arrangements for supporting packet reassembly or resequencing · CPC title

• H04L1/1841

  Resequencing · CPC title