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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
Applicant:
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wilson Parkhurst Snyder, II, Holliston, MA (US);
Richard Eugene Kessler, Northboroug, MA (US);
Daniel Edward Dever, North Brookfield, LA (US);
Nitin Dhiroobhai Godiwala, Boylston, KY (US);
Assignee:
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 12/0862 (2016.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1024 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6028 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and a system embodying the method for pre-fetching and processing work for processor cores in a network processor, comprising requesting pre-fetch work by a requestor; determining that the work may be pre-fetched for the requestor; searching for the work to pre-fetch; and pre-fetching the found work into one of one or more pre-fetch work-slots associated with the requestor is disclosed.