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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2009
Lakshminarayana Arimilli, Austin, TX (US);
Claude Basso, Raleigh, NC (US);
Piyush Chaudhary, Highland, NY (US);
Bernard C. Drerup, Austin, TX (US);
Jody B. Joyner, Austin, TX (US);
Jan-bernd Themann, Tuebingen, DE;
Christoph Raisch, Gerlingen, DE;
Colin B. Verrilli, Apex, NC (US);
Lakshminarayana Arimilli, Austin, TX (US);
Claude Basso, Raleigh, NC (US);
Piyush Chaudhary, Highland, NY (US);
Bernard C. Drerup, Austin, TX (US);
Jody B. Joyner, Austin, TX (US);
Jan-Bernd Themann, Tuebingen, DE;
Christoph Raisch, Gerlingen, DE;
Colin B. Verrilli, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A synchronization optimized queuing method and device to minimize software/hardware interaction in network interface hardware during an end-of-initiative process, including network adapter queue implementations for network interface hardware for optimized communication in a computer system. An end-of-initiative procedure to ensure that the network interface hardware has received an interrupt enable and to recheck the interrupt queue is unnecessary in the present invention.