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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2015
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Richard E. Kessler, Northborough, MA (US);
Thomas F. Hummel, Natick, MA (US);
Robert A. Sanzone, Hudson, MA (US);
Daniel A. Katz, Holliston, MA (US);
Michael S. Bertone, Marlborough, MA (US);
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system includes reassembly stores configured to store a fragment of a packet in a particular reassembly store corresponding with the packet, and when the particular reassembly store contains fragments of the packet representing the packet as a whole, forward the packet to a plurality of cores. The system further includes a packet reception unit configured to store the fragment in one of a plurality of memories within the reassembly stores, and, when the one of the plurality of memories is filled, copy the at least one fragment to a memory external to the packet reception unit.