A containerized virtual network element packet transmission method and system

Abstract

A containerized virtual network element message transmission method and system, the message is transmitted between a memory switch and a virtual network element, the method comprises: a sender stores a to-be-transmitted message in an idle shared memory unit in a pre-created shared memory unit pool, and obtains a corresponding shared memory number; the sender sends a protocol frame containing the shared memory number to a target receiver; the target receiver accesses corresponding message data from the shared memory unit pool according to the shared memory number, and performs corresponding operations on the message data according to control information in the protocol frame. The message transmission process does not need to copy the message content, does not depend on special hardware such as RDMA and special network cards such as InfiniBand, and can be directly deployed in an x86 server and a standard container environment, thereby improving the transmission efficiency, effectively improving the compatibility of the zero-copy message transmission technology with the existing containerized network simulation system, and reducing the communication cost.

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