METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA PROGRAMMABLE PACKET PARSERS

摘要

A parser for parsing network packets comprises a plurality of clusters, each cluster comprising one or more engines; a launcher configured to determine a candidate cluster of the plurality of clusters to parse a subset of a plurality of received packets; a loader configured to transmit the subset of the plurality of packets to the candidate cluster, wherein each of the one or more engines in the candidate cluster is configured to parse and derive parse results for a packet of the subset of the plurality of packets; and an unloader configured to receive from the candidate cluster the parse results for the subset of the plurality of packets and to transmit that information to a target.