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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2011
Balakrishnan Sundararaman, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Shailendra Aulakh, Austin, TX (US);
David P. Sonnier, Austin, TX (US);
Rachel Flood, Austin, TX (US);
Balakrishnan Sundararaman, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Shailendra Aulakh, Austin, TX (US);
David P. Sonnier, Austin, TX (US);
Rachel Flood, Austin, TX (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Described embodiments provide a method of processing packets of a network processor. One or more tasks are generated corresponding to received packets associated with one or more data flows. A traffic manager receives a task corresponding to a data flow, the task provided by a processing module of the network processor. The traffic manager determines whether the received task corresponds to a unicast data flow or a multicast data flow. If the received task corresponds to a multicast data flow, the traffic manager determines, based on identifiers corresponding to the task, an address of launch data stored in launch data tables in a shared memory, and reads the launch data. Based on the identifiers and the read launch data, two or more output tasks are generated corresponding to the multicast data flow, and the two or more output tasks are added at the tail end of a scheduling queue.