In network communications, typically a network interface controller (NIC) or other network
adapter is present within a system to receive incoming packets from the network. The
number of incoming packets can be very large. Thus as the 10 number of cores present in a
system continues to increase, technologies such as Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) make it
possible to spread networkflows among the cores to maintain Scalability. Rebalancing the
system load can cause network flows to migrate from core to core, which can cause their 15 …