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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2008
Anumita Biswas, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vijay Singh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sonny Son, Cambell, CA (US);
Bill Berryman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dave Noveck, Lexington, MA (US);
Peter Shah, Waltham, MA (US);
Jason Goldschmidt, Brookline, MA (US);
Anumita Biswas, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vijay Singh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sonny Son, Cambell, CA (US);
Bill Berryman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dave Noveck, Lexington, MA (US);
Peter Shah, Waltham, MA (US);
Jason Goldschmidt, Brookline, MA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
According to a novel mechanism, each processing device (e.g., a central processing unit (CPU) in a multi-processor system) is assigned to process a single execution thread for a task and the execution thread is processed across various layers of the multi-processor system (such as a network layer and application layer) without being divided into separate threads. Advantageously, upon initialization of the multi-processor system, network context data structures are created equal to the number of processing devices in the system. As used herein, a network context is a logical entity to which zero or more connections are bound during their lifetime. Rather than sharing data structures among execution threads, a multi-processor system allocates memory resources per each network context during initialization of the system. As a result, an execution thread processing a task queued to a particular network context accesses memory resources allocated for that network context only.