Patent ID: 9325630
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing device executing a first component of a virtual switch in a user space, routing information pertaining to a virtual machine from a hypervisor managing the virtual machine; determining, by the processing device, a wild card entry associated with the virtual machine for a first routing data structure that is accessible in a kernel space, wherein the wild card entry is determined using the routing information and one or more routing policies; adding, by the processing device, the wild card entry associated with the virtual machine to the first routing data structure, wherein the wild card entry specifies one or more exact match fields, one or more wild card fields and an action to perform for packets having properties that match the one or more exact match fields; receiving an indication that the virtual machine has been shut down; and removing the wild card entry associated with the virtual machine from the first routing data structure.