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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Steven C. Barner, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 5/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 5/08 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); H04L 12/863 (2013.01); H04L 12/861 (2013.01); H04L 12/70 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06F 5/06 (2013.01); G06F 5/065 (2013.01); G06F 5/085 (2013.01); G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); H04L 47/50 (2013.01); H04L 47/621 (2013.01); H04L 47/6205 (2013.01); H04L 49/90 (2013.01); G06F 2205/065 (2013.01); H04L 2012/5681 (2013.01);
Abstract
A group of low-level FIFOs may be logically bound together to form a super-FIFO. The super-FIFO may treat each low-level FIFO as a storage location. The super-FIFO may enable a push to (or a pop from) every low-level FIFO, simultaneously. The super-FIFO may enable a virtual channel (VC) to use the super-FIFO, bypassing a VC FIFO for the VC, removing several cycles of latency otherwise needed for enqueuing and dequeuing messages in the VC FIFO. In addition, the super-FIFO may enable bypassing of an arbiter, further reducing latency by avoiding a penalty of the arbiter.