公开(公告)号：US07715428B2

公开(公告)日：2010-05-11

申请号：US11669419

申请日：2007-01-31

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Herman D. Dierks, Jr. ,  Christoph Raisch ,  Jan-Bernd Themann ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Herman D. Dierks, Jr. ,  Christoph Raisch ,  Jan-Bernd Themann ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

IPC分类号： H04L12/66 ,  H04J3/16 ,  H04J3/22

CPC分类号： H04L47/50

摘要： Mechanisms for processing of communications between data processing devices are provided. With the mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments, a set of techniques that enables sustaining media speed by distributing transmit and receive-side processing over multiple processing cores is provided. In addition, these techniques also enable designing multi-threaded network interface controller (NIC) hardware that efficiently hides the latency of direct memory access (DMA) operations associated with data packet transfers over an input/output (I/O) bus. Multiple processing cores may operate concurrently using separate instances of a communication protocol stack and device drivers to process data packets for transmission with separate hardware implemented send queue managers in a network adapter processing these data packets for transmission. Multiple hardware receive packet processors in the network adapter may be used, along with a flow classification engine, to route received data packets to appropriate receive queues and processing cores for processing.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于处理数据处理设备之间的通信的机制。 利用说明性实施例的机制，提供了一组通过在多个处理核上分发发送和接收侧处理来维持媒体速度的技术。 此外，这些技术还可以设计出多线程网络接口控制器（NIC）硬件，可有效地隐藏通过输入/输出（I / O）总线传输数据分组的直接存储器访问（DMA）操作的延迟。 多个处理核心可以使用通信协议栈和设备驱动程序的单独实例同时运行，以处理用于传输的数据分组，其中单独的硬件实现了处理这些数据分组以进行传输的网络适配器中的发送队列管理器。 可以使用网络适配器中的多个硬件接收分组处理器以及流分类引擎将接收到的数据分组路由到适当的接收队列和处理核心进行处理。

公开(公告)号：US20080181245A1

公开(公告)日：2008-07-31

申请号：US11669419

申请日：2007-01-31

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Herman D. Dierks ,  Christoph Raisch ,  Jan-Bernd Themann ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Herman D. Dierks ,  Christoph Raisch ,  Jan-Bernd Themann ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

IPC分类号： H04L12/56

CPC分类号： H04L47/50

摘要： A system and method for multicore processing of communications between data processing devices are provided. With the mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments, a set of techniques that enables sustaining media speed by distributing transmit and receive-side processing over multiple processing cores is provided. In addition, these techniques also enable designing multi-threaded network interface controller (NIC) hardware that efficiently hides the latency of direct memory access (DMA) operations associated with data packet transfers over an input/output (I/O) bus. Multiple processing cores may operate concurrently using separate instances of a communication protocol stack and device drivers to process data packets for transmission with separate hardware implemented send queue managers in a network adapter processing these data packets for transmission. Multiple hardware receive packet processors in the network adapter may be used, along with a flow classification engine, to route received data packets to appropriate receive queues and processing cores for processing.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于数据处理设备之间的通信的多核处理的系统和方法。 利用说明性实施例的机制，提供了一组通过在多个处理核上分发发送和接收侧处理来维持媒体速度的技术。 此外，这些技术还可以设计出多线程网络接口控制器（NIC）硬件，可有效地隐藏通过输入/输出（I / O）总线传输数据分组的直接存储器访问（DMA）操作的延迟。 多个处理核心可以使用通信协议栈和设备驱动程序的单独实例同时运行，以处理用于传输的数据分组，其中单独的硬件实现了处理这些数据分组以进行传输的网络适配器中的发送队列管理器。 可以使用网络适配器中的多个硬件接收分组处理器以及流分类引擎将接收到的数据分组路由到适当的接收队列和处理核心进行处理。

公开(公告)号：US20120204190A1

公开(公告)日：2012-08-09

申请号：US13365778

申请日：2012-02-03

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

IPC分类号： G06F9/46

CPC分类号： G06F9/546 ,  G06F9/544

摘要： A mechanism is provided for merging in a network processor results from a parser and results from an external coprocessor providing processing support requested by said parser. The mechanism enqueues in a result queue both parser results needing to be merged with a coprocessor result and parser results which have no need to be merged with a coprocessor result. An additional queue is used to enqueue the addresses of the result queue where the parser results are stored. The result from the coprocessor is received in a simple response register. The coprocessor result is read by the result queue management logic from the response register and merged to the corresponding incomplete parser result read in the result queue at the address enqueued in the additional queue.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种机制，用于在来自解析器的网络处理器结果和来自提供由所述解析器请求的处理支持的外部协处理器的结果中合并。 结果队列中的机制排队，解析器结果需要与协处理器结果合并，并且不需要与协处理器结果合并的解析器结果。 使用一个附加队列来排列存储解析器结果的结果队列的地址。 协处理器的结果是在简单的响应寄存器中接收的。 协处理器结果由响应寄存器的结果队列管理逻辑读取，并被合并到在附加队列中排队的地址的结果队列中读取的相应的不完整解析器结果。

公开(公告)号：US20120192190A1

公开(公告)日：2012-07-26

申请号：US13011663

申请日：2011-01-21

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

IPC分类号： G06F9/46

CPC分类号： G06F15/1735

摘要： A host Ethernet adapter (HEA) and method of managing network communications is provided. The HEA includes a host interface configured for communication with a multi-core processor over a processor bus. The host interface comprises a receive processing element including a receive processor, a receive buffer and a scheduler for dispatching packets from the receive buffer to the receive processor; a send processing element including a send processor and a send buffer; and a completion queue scheduler (CQS) for dispatching completion queue elements (CQE) from the head of the completion queue (CQ) to threads of the multi-core processor in a network node mode. The method comprises operatively coupling an Ethernet adapter to a multi-core processor system via a processor bus, selectively assigning a first plurality of packets to a first queue pair for servicing in an endpoint mode, running a device driver on the multi-core processing system, the device driver controlling the servicing of the first queue pair by dispatching the first plurality of packets to only one processor core of the multi-core processor system, selectively assigning a second plurality of packets to a second queue pair for servicing in a network node mode; and the Ethernet adapter controlling the servicing of the second queue pair by dispatching the second plurality of packets to multiple processor threads.

摘要翻译： 提供主机以太网适配器（HEA）和管理网络通信的方法。 HEA包括被配置为通过处理器总线与多核处理器进行通信的主机接口。 所述主机接口包括接收处理元件，所述接收处理元件包括接收处理器，接收缓冲器和用于从所述接收缓冲器向所述接收处理器分发分组的调度器; 包括发送处理器和发送缓冲器的发送处理元件; 以及用于从完成队列（CQ）的头部将网络节点模式中的多核处理器的线程调度完成队列元素（CQE）的完成队列调度器（CQS）。 该方法包括经由处理器总线可操作地将以太网适配器耦合到多核处理器系统，选择性地将第一多个分组分配到第一队列对以在端点模式下进行服务，在多核处理系统上运行设备驱动程序 所述设备驱动程序通过将所述第一多个分组分派到所述多核处理器系统的一个处理器核心来控制所述第一队列对的服务，选择性地将第二多个分组分配给第二队列对以在网络节点中进行服务 模式; 以及所述以太网适配器通过将所述第二多个分组分派到多个处理器线程来控制所述第二队列对的服务。

公开(公告)号：US09088594B2

公开(公告)日：2015-07-21

申请号：US13365679

申请日：2012-02-03

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

IPC分类号： G06F9/30 ,  H04L29/06

CPC分类号： H04L69/12

摘要： A mechanism is provided for sharing a communication used by a parser (parser path) in a network adapter of a network processor for sending requests for a process to be executed by an external coprocessor. The parser path is shared by processors of the network processor (software path) to send requests to the external processor. The mechanism uses for the software path a request mailbox comprising a control address and a data field accessed by MMIO for sending two types of messages, one message type to read or write resources and one message type to trigger an external process in the coprocessor and a response mailbox for receiving response from the external coprocessor comprising a data field and a flag field. The other processors of the network poll the flag until set and get the coprocessor result in the data field.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于共享由网络处理器的网络适配器中的解析器（解析器路径）使用的通信的机制，用于发送对要由外部协处理器执行的进程的请求。 解析器路径由网络处理器（软件路径）的处理器共享，以将请求发送到外部处理器。 该机制用于软件路径，包括由MMIO访问的控制地址和数据字段的请求邮箱，用于发送两种类型的消息，一种用于读取或写入资源的消息类型和一个消息类型以触发协处理器中的外部进程， 用于从包括数据字段和标志字段的外部协处理器接收响应的响应邮箱。 网络的其他处理器轮询该标志直到设置，并获得协处理器结果的数据字段。

公开(公告)号：US20120204002A1

公开(公告)日：2012-08-09

申请号：US13365679

申请日：2012-02-03

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

IPC分类号： G06F15/76 ,  G06F9/06

CPC分类号： H04L69/12

摘要： A mechanism is provided for sharing a communication used by a parser (parser path) in a network adapter of a network processor for sending requests for a process to be executed by an external coprocessor. The parser path is shared by processors of the network processor (software path) to send requests to the external processor. The mechanism uses for the software path a request mailbox comprising a control address and a data field accessed by MMIO for sending two types of messages, one message type to read or write resources and one message type to trigger an external process in the coprocessor and a response mailbox for receiving response from the external coprocessor comprising a data field and a flag field. The other processors of the network poll the flag until set and get the coprocessor result in the data field.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于共享由网络处理器的网络适配器中的解析器（解析器路径）使用的通信的机制，用于发送对要由外部协处理器执行的进程的请求。 解析器路径由网络处理器（软件路径）的处理器共享，以将请求发送到外部处理器。 该机制用于软件路径，包括由MMIO访问的控制地址和数据字段的请求邮箱，用于发送两种类型的消息，一种用于读取或写入资源的消息类型和一个消息类型以触发协处理器中的外部进程， 用于从包括数据字段和标志字段的外部协处理器接收响应的响应邮箱。 网络的其他处理器轮询该标志直到设置，并获得协处理器结果的数据字段。

公开(公告)号：US08576864B2

公开(公告)日：2013-11-05

申请号：US13011663

申请日：2011-01-21

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

IPC分类号： H04L12/28 ,  H04J1/16

CPC分类号： G06F15/1735

摘要： A host Ethernet adapter (HEA) and method of managing network communications is provided. The HEA includes a host interface configured for communication with a multi-core processor over a processor bus. The host interface comprises a receive processing element including a receive processor, a receive buffer and a scheduler for dispatching packets from the receive buffer to the receive processor; a send processing element including a send processor and a send buffer; and a completion queue scheduler (CQS) for dispatching completion queue elements (CQE) from the head of the completion queue (CQ) to threads of the multi-core processor in a network node mode. The method comprises operatively coupling an Ethernet adapter to a multi-core processor system via a processor bus, selectively assigning a first plurality of packets to a first queue pair for servicing in an endpoint mode, running a device driver on the multi-core processing system, the device driver controlling the servicing of the first queue pair by dispatching the first plurality of packets to only one processor core of the multi-core processor system, selectively assigning a second plurality of packets to a second queue pair for servicing in a network node mode; and the Ethernet adapter controlling the servicing of the second queue pair by dispatching the second plurality of packets to multiple processor threads.

摘要翻译： 提供主机以太网适配器（HEA）和管理网络通信的方法。 HEA包括被配置为通过处理器总线与多核处理器进行通信的主机接口。 所述主机接口包括接收处理元件，所述接收处理元件包括接收处理器，接收缓冲器和用于从所述接收缓冲器向所述接收处理器分发分组的调度器; 包括发送处理器和发送缓冲器的发送处理元件; 以及用于从完成队列（CQ）的头部将网络节点模式中的多核处理器的线程调度完成队列元素（CQE）的完成队列调度器（CQS）。 该方法包括经由处理器总线可操作地将以太网适配器耦合到多核处理器系统，选择性地将第一多个分组分配到第一队列对以在端点模式下进行服务，在多核处理系统上运行设备驱动程序 所述设备驱动程序通过将所述第一多个分组分派到所述多核处理器系统的一个处理器核心来控制所述第一队列对的服务，选择性地将第二多个分组分配给第二队列对以在网络节点中进行服务 模式; 以及所述以太网适配器通过将所述第二多个分组分派到多个处理器线程来控制所述第二队列对的服务。

公开(公告)号：US08468546B2

公开(公告)日：2013-06-18

申请号：US13365778

申请日：2012-02-03

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Philippe Damon ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/546 ,  G06F9/544

摘要： A mechanism is provided for merging in a network processor results from a parser and results from an external coprocessor providing processing support requested by said parser. The mechanism enqueues in a result queue both parser results needing to be merged with a coprocessor result and parser results which have no need to be merged with a coprocessor result. An additional queue is used to enqueue the addresses of the result queue where the parser results are stored. The result from the coprocessor is received in a simple response register. The coprocessor result is read by the result queue management logic from the response register and merged to the corresponding incomplete parser result read in the result queue at the address enqueued in the additional queue.

公开(公告)号：US20130266021A1

公开(公告)日：2013-10-10

申请号：US13990587

申请日：2011-12-19

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Damon Philippe ,  Michel L. Poret ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-jen Chang ,  Damon Philippe ,  Michel L. Poret ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Fabrice J. Verplanken ,  Colin B. Verrilli

IPC分类号： H04L12/70

CPC分类号： H04L49/90 ,  G06F5/10 ,  G06F13/128

摘要： The invention provides a method for adding specific hardware on both receive and transmit sides that will hide to the software most of the effort related to buffer and pointers management. At initialization, a set of pointers and buffers is provided by software, in quantity large enough to support expected traffic. A Send Queue Replenisher (SQR) and Receive Queue Replenisher (RQR) hide RQ and SQ management to software. RQR and SQR fully monitor pointers queues and perform recirculation of pointers from transmit side to receive side.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种在接收端和发送端添加特定硬件的方法，其将隐藏与软件大部分与缓冲器和指针管理相关的功能的软件。 在初始化时，一组指针和缓冲区由软件提供，数量足够大以支持预期流量。 发送队列补货（SQR）和接收队列补货（RQR）将RQ和SQ管理隐藏到软件中。 RQR和SQR完全监视指针队列，并执行从发送端到接收端的指针的再循环。

公开(公告)号：US09215125B2

公开(公告)日：2015-12-15

申请号：US13884664

申请日：2011-12-19

申请人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-Jen Chang ,  Damon Philippe ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Colin B. Verrilli ,  Fabrice Jean Verplanken

发明人： Claude Basso ,  Jean L. Calvignac ,  Chih-Jen Chang ,  Damon Philippe ,  Natarajan Vaidhyanathan ,  Colin B. Verrilli ,  Fabrice Jean Verplanken

IPC分类号： H04L29/06 ,  G06F9/38 ,  G06F15/163 ,  G06F9/54

CPC分类号： H04L29/0653 ,  G06F9/3877 ,  G06F9/544 ,  G06F13/385 ,  G06F15/163 ,  H04L69/22

摘要： A network processor includes first communication protocol ports that each support ‘M’ minimum size packet data path traffic on ‘N’ lanes at ‘S’ Gigabits per second (Gbps) and traffic with different communication protocol units on ‘n’ additional lanes at ‘s’ Gbps. The first communication protocol ports support access to an external coprocessor using parsing logic located in each of the first communication protocol ports. The parsing logic, during a parsing period, is configured to send a request to the external coprocessor at reception of a ‘M’ size packet and to receive a response from the external coprocessor. The parsing logic sends a request maximum ‘m’ size byte word to the external coprocessor on one of the additional lanes and receives a response maximum ‘m’ size byte word from the external coprocessor on the one of the additional lanes while complying with the equation N×S/M=

摘要翻译： 网络处理器包括第一通信协议端口，每个端口以“S”千兆位/秒（Gbps）在“N”通道上支持“M”个最小尺寸分组数据路径业务，并且在“n”个附加车道上以不同的通信协议单元的流量“ s Gbps 第一通信协议端口支持使用位于每个第一通信协议端口中的解析逻辑来访问外部协处理器。 解析逻辑在解析周期期间被配置为在接收到“M”大小的分组时向外部协处理器发送请求并且从外部协处理器接收响应。 解析逻辑在附加通道之一上向外部协处理器发送请求最大“m”字节字，并在附加通道之一上从外部协处理器接收响应最大“m”字节字，同时遵循等式 N×S / M =