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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2000
Mario Nemirovsky, Saratoga, CA (US);
Narendra Sankar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Adolfo Nemirovsky, San Jose, CA (US);
Enric Musoll, San Jose, CA (US);
Mario Nemirovsky, Saratoga, CA (US);
Narendra Sankar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Adolfo Nemirovsky, San Jose, CA (US);
Enric Musoll, San Jose, CA (US);
MIPS Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A background event buffer manager (BEBM) for ordering and accounting for events in a data processing system having a processor includes a port for receiving event identifications (IDs) from a device, a queuing function enabled for queuing event IDs received, and a notification function for notifying the processor of queued event IDs. The BEBM handles all event ordering and accounting for the processor. The BEBM in preferred embodiments queues events by type with priority and by priority within type, and also handles sending acknowledgement to the device when processing on each event is concluded, and buffers the acknowledgement process. In particular embodiments the apparatus and method is taught as a packet processing router engine.