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Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2014
Applicant:

Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Xu Zhou, Milpitas, CA (US);

David Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Lin Huang, Fremont, CA (US);

Guansong Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/935 (2013.01); H04L 12/863 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/166 (2013.01); G06F 12/1081 (2013.01); H04L 47/62 (2013.01); H04L 49/3045 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for a more efficient transmission of network traffic are provided. According to one embodiment, payload data originated by a user process running on a host processor of the computer system is fetched by an interface of the computer system by performing direct virtual memory addressing of a user memory space of a system memory of the computer system on behalf of a network processor of the computer system. The direct virtual memory addressing maps a physical address of the payload data to a virtual address. The payload data is segmented by the network processor across one or more packets.


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