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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2003
Ryan Taylor Herbst, Redwood City, CA (US);
James L. Cihla, San Jose, CA (US);
Rahim Ibrahim, Mountain View, CA (US);
James L. Vuong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ryan Taylor Herbst, Redwood City, CA (US);
James L. Cihla, San Jose, CA (US);
Rahim Ibrahim, Mountain View, CA (US);
James L. Vuong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method offloads processing from a networking processor operating in a storage environment. Three main functions are offloaded: semaphore processing, frame order processing, and timer processing. Offloading of semaphore processing enables ordered access to semaphores. Offloading of frame order processing enables the network processor to quickly transmit an incoming frame if the incoming frame is the next one in the frame order. Offloading of timer processing enables background checking of the timer list.