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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2012
Applicants:

Rekesh John, Livermore, CA (US);

Srinivasa R. Addepalli, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rekesh John, Livermore, CA (US);

Srinivasa R. Addepalli, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/544 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of a symmetric multi-processing (SMP) system can provide full affinity of a connection to a core processor when desired, even when ingress packet distribution, protocol processing layer and applications may autonomously process packets on different cores of the SMP system. In an illustrative embodiment, the SMP system can include a server application that is configured to create a plurality of tasks and bind the plurality of tasks to a plurality of core processors. One or more of the plurality of tasks are configured to create a corresponding listening endpoint socket, bind and listen on a protocol address that is common to the plurality of tasks.


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