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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2009
Shrijeet Mukherjee, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Brian Galles, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Scott Feldman, McMinnville, OR (US);
J. Bradley Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Shrijeet Mukherjee, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Brian Galles, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Scott Feldman, McMinnville, OR (US);
J. Bradley Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving a first interrupt request from a first device instance of a plurality of device instances. The first interrupt request is requesting an interrupt of a processor. The method also includes updating a bit vector based on the first interrupt request. The bit vector comprises a plurality of bits representing an accumulation of interrupt requests. The method further includes generating a gang interrupt comprising the updated bit vector. The method also includes transmitting the gang interrupt to call a first device driver associated with the first interrupt request based on the bits in the bit vector.