Patent ID: 9459904
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of assigning a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) to a set of network queues operating on a host machine, the method comprising: identifying a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) node associated with a VM of the plurality of VMs; for the identified NUMA node, identifying, from the set of network queues, a network queue assigned to the NUMA node associated with the VM; upon identifying the network queue assigned to the NUMA node associated with the VM, generating an assignment for the VM to one of the network queues from the set of network queues, said generating is biased toward assigning the VM to the network queue assigned to the NUMA node associated with the VM; and using the generated assignment to assign the VM to the network queue assigned to the NUMA node associated with the VM, wherein the NUMA node is associated with the VM when the VM is executed by at least one processor of the NUMA node and data from the VM is stored in the memory of the NUMA node.