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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2004
Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Portland, OR (US);
Siva Balasubramanian, Chandler, AZ (US);
William T. Futral, Portland, OR (US);
Sujoy Sen, Portland, OR (US);
Gregory D. Cummings, Portland, OR (US);
Kenneth C. Creta, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
David C. Lee, Beaverton, OR (US);
Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Portland, OR (US);
Siva Balasubramanian, Chandler, AZ (US);
William T. Futral, Portland, OR (US);
Sujoy Sen, Portland, OR (US);
Gregory D. Cummings, Portland, OR (US);
Kenneth C. Creta, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
David C. Lee, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Write-combining in a computer system that uses a push model is set forth herein. In one embodiment, the method comprises creating one or more packets having a descriptor and the data associated with detected write transactions stored in the buffer assigned to a write-combinable range in response to a flush request to flush the buffer, and sending (pushing) these packets to the network I/O device.