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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2000
Douglas J. Joseph, Danbury, CT (US);
Maged M. Michael, Danbury, CT (US);
Ashwini Nanda, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for the parallel implementation of protocol engines based on memory partitioning. The method comprises the steps of partitioning a shared memory space into multiple mon-overlapping regions; and for each of the regions, using a respective one protocol engine to handle references to the region, independently of the other protocol engines. Preferably, the memory is partitioned into the non-overlapping regions either by using address interleaving or by using address range registers to identify address ranges for said regions. Also, preferably the protocol engines operate independent of each other and handle accesses to the memory regions in parallel.