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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2014
Netronome Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ron Lamar Swartzentruber, Amesbury, MA (US);
Netronome Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of performing an update packet sequence number packet ready command (drop packet mode operation) is described herein. A first packet ready command is received from a memory system via a bus and onto a first network interface circuit. The first packet ready command includes a multicast value. A first communication mode is determined as a function of the multicast value. The multicast value indicates a single packet was communicated by a second network interface circuit. A packet sequence number stored in a memory unit is updated. The memory unit is included in the first network interface circuit. The first network interface circuit does not free the first packet from the memory system. The network interface circuits and the memory system are included on an Island-Based Network Flow Processor. The bus is a Command/Push/Pull (CPP) bus.