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Jun 16, 2024 · Operations

Inside Intel HDSLB: Architecture and Advanced Load‑Balancing Features

This article walks through Intel's high‑density scalable load balancer (HDSLB), detailing its layered software architecture, advanced elephant‑flow handling, fast/slow‑path separation, packet‑forwarding optimizations, and provides a deep code analysis of its configuration, initialization, and data‑plane job execution.