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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2000
Hirohide Sugahara, Kawasaki, JP;
Jeffrey D. Larson, San Jose, CA (US);
Takashi Miyoshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Takeshi Horie, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A computer network system and a method for fast delivery of an interrupt message over a computer network enables a first processor coupled to the computer network to very quickly send an interrupt message to a second processor coupled to the computer network, by directly writing the interrupt message to a doorbell address range associated with the second processor in the PCI memory space of a first PCI bus to which the first processor is coupled. The doorbell address range is mapped to a doorbell space in the PCI memory space of a second PCI bus to which the second processor is coupled. The first PCI bus is coupled to the computer network through a first PCI network adaptor, which processes the write transaction and send it to the network. The second PCI bus is coupled to the computer network through a second PCI network adaptor, which receives the write transaction from the network and transforms the write transaction into an interrupt message to the second processor.