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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
May. 12, 2009
Douglas Morgan Freimuth, New York, NY (US);
Elbert C. HU, Elmhurst, NY (US);
Ronald Mraz, South Salem, NY (US);
Erich M. Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Prashant Pradhan, New Rochelle, NY (US);
Sambit Sahu, Mahopac, NY (US);
John Michael Tracey, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Douglas Morgan Freimuth, New York, NY (US);
Elbert C. Hu, Elmhurst, NY (US);
Ronald Mraz, South Salem, NY (US);
Erich M. Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Prashant Pradhan, New Rochelle, NY (US);
Sambit Sahu, Mahopac, NY (US);
John Michael Tracey, Scarsdale, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A number of improvements in network adapters that offload protocol processing from the host processor are provided. Specifically, a mechanism for improving connection establishment in a system utilizing an offload network adapter is provided. The connection establishment mechanism provides the ability to offload connection establishment and maintenance of connection state information to the offload network adapter. As a result of this offloading of connection establishment and state information maintenance, the number of communications needed between the host system and the offload network adapter may be reduced. In addition, offloading of these functions to the offload network adapter permits bulk notification of established connections and state information to the host system rather than piecemeal notifications as is present in known computing systems.