Patent ID: 11936515
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions thereon for supporting efficient reconfiguration of an interconnection network having a pre-existing routing, which when read an executed cause a computer to perform steps comprising:
providing one or more computers, wherein each of the one or more computers comprises one or more microprocessors;
providing, at the one or more computers, a network, the network comprising a plurality of switches and a metabase,
storing, at the metabase, a first set of leaf-switch to leaf-switch multipaths, each of the first set of leaf-switch to leaf-switch multipaths being calculated by a management entity of the network;
upon detection, by the management entity, of a reconfiguration triggering event, distributing, from the metabase and by the management entity, at least one multipath of the first set of leaf-switch to leaf-switch multipaths to the plurality of switches;
updating, in parallel, a plurality of linear forwarding tables of the network based upon the distributed at least one multipath.