Abstract: A network device includes a programmable core and a hardware pipeline having a parser engine to parse and retrieve information from a network packet and a set of hardware engines coupled to the parser engine. The set of hardware engines is to determine a packet-processing action to be performed based on the retrieved information and send an action request to the programmable core to trigger the programmable core to execute a hardware thread to perform a job. The job is associated with the packet-processing action and generates contextual data. The set of hardware engines retrieves and integrates the contextual data into performing the packet-processing action.

Abstract: A system for transmitting data is described, among other things. An illustrative system is disclosed to include one or more circuits to perform receive-side scaling (RSS) by receiving a packet, identifying one or more bits in the packet, and forwarding the packet to a receiving queue based on the identified one or more bits in the packet.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a network packet into a hardware pipeline of a network device; parsing and retrieving information of the network packet; determining, by the hardware pipeline, a packet-processing action to be performed by matching the information to a data structure of a set of flow data structures; sending, by the hardware pipeline, an action request to a programmable core, the action request being populated with data to trigger the programmable core to execute a hardware thread to perform a job, which is associated with the packet-processing action and that generates contextual data; retrieving the contextual data updated by the programmable core; and integrating the contextual data into performing the packet-processing action.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a network packet into a hardware pipeline of a network device; parsing and retrieving information of the network packet; determining, by the hardware pipeline, a packet-processing action to be performed by matching the information to a data structure of a set of flow data structures; sending, by the hardware pipeline, an action request to a programmable core, the action request being populated with data to trigger the programmable core to execute a hardware thread to perform a job, which is associated with the packet-processing action and that generates contextual data; retrieving the contextual data updated by the programmable core; and integrating the contextual data into performing the packet-processing action.