y</h2><p>Intel DLB is a hardware managed system of queues and arbiters connecting producers and consumers. It is a PCI device envisaged to live in the server CPU <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncore>uncore</a> and can interact with software running on cores, and potentially with other devices.</p><p>Intel DLB implements the following load balancing features:</p><ul><li>Offloads queue management from software — useful where there are significant queuing-based costs.<ul><li>Especially with multi-pro