Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Efficient means of combining network traffic for 64Bit and 31 bit workloads
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Application No.: US14793928Application Date: 2015-07-08
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Publication No.: US10540317B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Patrick G. Brown , Michael J. Fox , Jeffrey D. Haggar , Jerry W. Stevens
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Terrile, Cannatti & Chambers, LLP
- Agent Stephen A. Terrile
- Main IPC: G06F15/167
- IPC: G06F15/167 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/873 ; H04L12/911

Abstract:
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for performing a network traffic combination operation. With the network traffic combination operation, a plurality of input queues are defined by an operating system for an adapter based upon workload type (e.g., as determined by a transport layer). Additionally, the operating system defines each input queue to match a virtual memory architecture of the transport layer (e.g., one input queue is defined as 31 bit and other input queue is defined as 64 bit). When data is received off the wire as inbound data from a physical NIC, the network adapter associates the inbound data with the appropriate memory type. Thus, data copies are eliminated and memory consumption and associated storage management operations are reduced for the smaller bit architecture communications while allowing the operating system to continue executing in a larger bit architecture configuration.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170012889A1 Efficient Means of Combining Network Traffic for 64Bit and 31Bit Workloads Public/Granted day:2017-01-12
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