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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2004
Giora Biran, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Mark Epshtein, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;
Vadim Makhervaks, Yokneam, IL;
Alexander Mesh, Haifa, IL;
Tal Sostheim, Kiryat Tivon, IL;
Shaul Yifrach, Haifa, IL;
Giora Biran, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Mark Epshtein, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;
Vadim Makhervaks, Yokneam, IL;
Alexander Mesh, Haifa, IL;
Tal Sostheim, Kiryat Tivon, IL;
Shaul Yifrach, Haifa, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for dynamic management of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) reassembly buffers in hardware (e.g., in a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE)). The method comprises: providing a plurality of data blocks and an indirect list; pointing, via entries in the indirect list, to allocated data blocks in the plurality of data blocks that currently store incoming data; if a free data block in the plurality of data blocks is required for the storage of incoming data, allocating the free data block for storing incoming data; and, if an allocated data block in the plurality of data blocks is no longer needed for storing incoming data, deallocating the allocated data block such that the deallocated data block becomes a free data block.