Patent ID: 11888710
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. One or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, cause a network interface controller (NIC) at a compute node to:
identify an amount of available cache ways of a last level cache (LLC) of a processor at the compute node;
determine a workload type associated with each of a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) managed by the compute node based on received network traffic to be processed by each of the plurality of VMs;
identify an amount of LLC cache ways for each workload type; and
update a at least one register of the NIC to indicate the identified amount of LLC cache ways for each workload type.