摘要 |
A Virtual Communication Environment to support virtual switching engines for layer 2 switches is described. The virtual layer 2 switching engines allow many virtual switches to be created in a CPU or across multiple CPUs in switching hardware. The virtual switch engines reduce the inter-communication costs in memory, CPU, inter-process bandwidth, and fabric bandwidth. This reduction in the cost per Virtual Switch device allows either more virtual switches to be contained within a control plane or more applications per switch control plane.
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