US Patent 11934330 Memory allocation for distributed processing devices

Examples described herein relate to an offload processor to receive data for transmission using a network interface or received in a packet by a network interface. In some examples, the offload processor can include a packet storage controller to determine whether to store data in a buffer of the offload processing device or a system memory after processing by the offload processing device. In some examples, determine whether to store data in a buffer of the offload processor or a system memory is based on one or more of: available buffer space, latency limit associated with the data, priority associated with the data, or available bandwidth through an interface between the buffer and the system memory. In some examples, the offload processor is to receive a descriptor and specify a storage location of data in the descriptor, wherein the storage location is within the buffer or the system memory.