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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2015
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
David Kravitz, Cambridge, MA (US);
Daniel E. Dever, North Brookfield, MA (US);
Wilson P. Snyder, II, Hilliston, MA (US);
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network processor includes a schedule, sync and order (SSO) module for scheduling and assigning work to multiple processors. The SSO includes an on-deck unit (ODU) that provides a table having several entries, each entry storing a respective work queue entry, and a number of lists. Each of the lists may be associated with a respective processor configured to execute the work, and includes pointers to entries in the table. pointer is added to the list based on an indication of whether the associated processor accepts the WQE corresponding to the pointer.