Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Efficient scatter-gather over an uplink
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Application No.: US16181376Application Date: 2018-11-06
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Publication No.: US10887252B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Dror Bohrer , Noam Bloch , Peter Paneah , Richard Graham
- Applicant: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: IL Yokneam
- Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: IL Yokneam
- Agency: Kligler & Associates Patent Attorneys Ltd
- Main IPC: G06F15/167
- IPC: G06F15/167 ; H04L12/879 ; H04L12/883 ; H04L12/931 ; H04L12/861 ; H04L12/935

Abstract:
A network interface device is connected to a host computer by having a memory controller, and a scatter-gather offload engine linked to the memory controller. The network interface device prepares a descriptor including a plurality of specified memory locations in the host computer, incorporates the descriptor in exactly one upload packet, transmits the upload packet to the scatter-gather offload engine via the uplink, invokes the scatter-gather offload engine to perform memory access operations cooperatively with the memory controller at the specified memory locations of the descriptor, and accepts results of the memory access operations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190149486A1 Efficient Scatter-Gather Over an Uplink Public/Granted day:2019-05-16
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