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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2005
Rajendra R. Gandhi, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Kuangfu D. Chu, Irvine, CA (US);
Jerald K. Alston, Coto de Caza, CA (US);
Rajendra R. Gandhi, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Kuangfu D. Chu, Irvine, CA (US);
Jerald K. Alston, Coto de Caza, CA (US);
QLOGIC, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and system for processing read requests sent by a network interface device to a host system is provided. The method includes sending staggered read requests within a programmable time interval ('T'), wherein a transmit direct memory access (DMA) module sends more than one read request to the host system within the time interval T; placing data received from the host system in response to the read requests in independent slots of a transmit buffer; and unloading the transmit buffer slots based on an unload command, wherein the unload command is based on a mapping of read requests corresponding to transmit buffer slot locations where data from the host system is stored, and data is sent from the transmit buffer to a network device in the same order as the read requests that are sent from the network interface device to host system.