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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2014
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xu Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Hongbin Lu, San Jose, CA (US);
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for improving efficiency of direct cache access (DCA) are provided. According to one embodiment, a DCA control is defined by a network Input/Output (I/O) device for an I/O device queue corresponding to a central processing unit (CPU) of a host processor. A part of an incoming packet is configured by the DCA control to be copied to a cache of the CPU. The incoming packet is parsed by the network I/O device based on one or more of packet analysis, packet protocol, header format and payload data information. The parsed incoming packet is transferred from an I/O device queue of the network I/O device to a host queue of a host memory that is operatively coupled with the host processor. The specified part of the parsed incoming packet is copied by a host controller to the cache of the CPU based on the DCA control.