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Streamlined guest networking in a virtualized environment

  • US 8,335,237 B1
  • Filed: 12/14/2011
  • Issued: 12/18/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for processing data packets in an electronic environment, comprising:

  • under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,receiving a packet to a transmit-side conversion layer of an enhanced network stack of a host machine, the packet including network data packetized using an enhanced transmission protocol to enable the packet to be transmitted through the enhanced network stack using a larger packet size than is able to be transmitted using a conventional transmission protocol;

    at the transmit-side conversion layer, determining a maximum packet size that can be processed by a network interface of the host machine and segmenting the data packet into segments of at most the maximum packet size, the segments being formatted using the conventional transmission protocol; and

    forwarding the segments to the network interface, the network interface being operable to transmit the segments to an external location.

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