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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
May. 06, 2008
Herman Dietrich Dierks, Jr., Round Rock, TX (US);
Binh K. Hua, Austin, TX (US);
Sivarama K. Kodukula, Round Rock, TX (US);
Herman Dietrich Dierks, Jr., Round Rock, TX (US);
Binh K. Hua, Austin, TX (US);
Sivarama K. Kodukula, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for transferring data from a memory to a network adapter in a data processing system. The frame size for a transfer of the data from the memory to the network adapter is identified. If the frame size is divisible by a cache line size without a remainder, a valid data length is set equal to the length field. However, if the frame size divided by the cache line size results in a remainder, the length field is set to align the data with the cache line size. The data transfer is then initiated using these fields.