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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ranjit J. Rozario, San Jose, CA (US);
Ravikrishna Cherukuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Redback Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/202 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/202 ;
Abstract
Free memory can be managed by creating a free list having entries with address of free memory location. A portion of this free list can then be cached in a cache that includes an upper threshold and a lower threshold. Additionally, a plurality of free lists are created for a plurality of memory banks in a plurality of memory channels. A free list is created for each memory bank in each memory channel. Entries from these free lists are written to a global cache. The entries written to the global cache are distributed between the memory channels and memory banks.