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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2010
Applicants:
Gilbert Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);
Mark B. Rosenbluth, Uxbridge, MA (US);
Debra Bernstein, Sunbury, MA (US);
Inventors:
Gilbert Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);
Mark B. Rosenbluth, Uxbridge, MA (US);
Debra Bernstein, Sunbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A queue descriptor including a head pointer pointing to the first element in a queue and a tail pointer pointing to the last element in the queue is stored in memory. In response to a command to perform an enqueue or dequeue operation with respect to the queue, fetching from the memory to a cache only one of either the head pointer or tail pointer and returning to the memory from the cache portions of the queue descriptor modified by the operation.