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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Stuart D. Cheshire, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2013.01); G06F 9/4812 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1228 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that suppresses interrupts to facilitate efficient use of a processor in a computer system. The system includes a node that transmits a first interrupt to the processor upon receiving a first packet for processing at the processor and disables subsequent interrupts to the processor during an interrupt-suppression state in the processor. The system also includes the processor, which processes the first packet upon receiving the first interrupt and transmits a first acknowledgment of the first packet to the node to enable the interrupt-suppression state.