NETWORKING STACK OF VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE CONFIGURED TO SUPPORT LATENCY SENSITIVE VIRTUAL MACHINES

摘要

A host computer has a plurality of containers including a first container executing therein, where the host also includes a physical network interface controller (NIC). A packet handling interrupt is detected upon receipt of a first data packet associated with the first container. If the first virtual machine is latency sensitive, then the packet handling interrupt is processed. If the first virtual machine is not latency sensitive, then the first data packet is queued and processing of the packet handling interrupt is delayed.

主权项

1. In a host computer having a plurality of containers including a first container executing therein, the host including a physical network interface controller (NIC), a method of transmitting and receiving data packets to and from the first container, the method performed by the host computer and comprising:
detecting a packet handling interrupt upon receiving a first data packet that is associated with the first container; determining whether the first container is latency sensitive; if the first container is latency sensitive, then processing the packet handling interrupt; if the first container is not latency sensitive, then:
queueing the first data packet; anddelaying processing of the packet handling interrupt.