Patent attributes
A distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple load balancer (LB) nodes, which in turn distribute the packet flows among multiple server nodes. Each LB node may serve in ingress, egress, and/or flow tracker roles. Each LB node may include a first network interface controller (NIC) that faces the router and a second NIC that faces the server nodes. Each LB node may implement a core packet processing architecture in which packets received at the NICs are distributed among non-blocking input queues of a set of worker cores by receiver cores for the NICs, processed from the input queues by the worker cores, and placed on non-blocking input queues of transmit cores for the NICs.
