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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2007
Applicant:
Xiuling MA, Portland, OR (US);
Inventor:
Xiuling Ma, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for reducing latency associated with processing events of a hardware interrupt. Send and receive events share the same hardware interrupt. A receive handler and a separate send handler are provided to simultaneously process completion of a send event and a receive event. In addition, separate queues are provided to communicate receipt of an event to the respective interrupt handler.