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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2003
Cahya Adi Masputra, Millbrae, CA (US);
Kacheong Poon, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cahya Adi Masputra, Millbrae, CA (US);
Kacheong Poon, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide for execution of a protocol in a multi-processor network device. In one embodiment, a hash function is applied to one or more fields of the data packet header to determine a unique index. A hash table is then queried, whereby data indicating one or more threads corresponding to said unique index is extracted. An available thread of execution, which has previously handled packet in the same receive stream, may thus be selected from a pool of threads. The selected thread of execution is then dispatched to provide for receive processing of the present data packet.