Abstract:
A method for managing access to a physical resource in a data processing system supporting an application, the resource being identified by a physical address, and the method comprising: forming a token at an encryption entity by encrypting the physical address together with additional data, in such a way that decryption of the token yields decrypted data that includes the physical address and that can be used to verify the validity of the token; making the token available to the application; generating a command by means of the application for triggering accessing of the physical resource, the command including the token.
Abstract:
A method for transmitting data by means of a data processing system, the system being capable of supporting an operating system and at least one application and having access to a memory and a network interface device capable of supporting a communication link over a network with another network interface device, the method comprising the steps of: forming by means of the application data to be transmitted; requesting by means of the application a non-operating-system functionality of the data processing system to send the data to be transmitted; responsive to that request: writing the data to be transmitted to an area of the memory; and initiating by means of direct communication between the non-operating-system functionality and the network interface device a transmission operation of at least some of the data over the network; and subsequently accessing the memory b means of the operating system and performing at least part of a transmission operation of at least some of the data over the network by means of the network interface device.
Abstract:
A data processing system supporting a network interface device and comprising: a plurality of sets of one or more data processing cores; and an operating system arranged to support at least one socket operable to accept data received from the network, the data belonging to one of a plurality of data flows; wherein the socket is configured to provide an instance of at least some of the state associated with the data flows per said set of data processing cores.
Abstract:
Method for managing a queue in host memory for use with a peripheral device. Roughly described, the host makes a determination of the availability of space in the queue for writing new entries, in dependence upon historical knowledge of the number of queue entries that the host has authorized the device to write, and the number of entries that the host has consumed. In dependence on that determination, the host authorizes the device to write a limited number of new entries into the queue. The device writes entries into the queue dependence upon the number authorized. The host maintains a read pointer into the queue but does not need to maintain a write pointer, and the peripheral device maintains a write pointer into the queue but does not need to maintain a read pointer.
Abstract:
A method for managing access to a physical resource in a data processing system supporting an application, the resource being identified by a physical address, and the method comprising: forming a token at an encryption entity by encrypting the physical address together with additional data, in such a way that decryption of the token yields decrypted data that includes the physical address and that can be used to verify the validity of the token; making the token available to the application; generating a command by means of the application for triggering accessing of the physical resource, the command including the token.
Abstract:
A method for managing access to a physical resource in a data processing system supporting an application, the resource being identified by a physical address, and the method comprising: forming a token at an encryption entity by encrypting the physical address together with additional data, in such a way that decryption of the token yields decrypted data that includes the physical address and that can be used to verify the validity of the token; making the token available to the application; generating a command by means of the application for triggering accessing of the physical resource, the command including the token.
Abstract:
Method of managing interaction between a host subsystem and a peripheral device. Roughly described, the peripheral device writes an event :finto an individual event queue, and in conjunction therewith, also writes a wakeup event into an intermediary event queue. The wakeup event identifies the individual event queue. The host subsystem, in response to retrieval of the wakeup event from the intermediary event queue, activates an individual event handler to consume events from the individual event queue.
Abstract:
A method of transmitting data according to a data transmission protocol wherein the data is transmitted as a plurality of data frames and each data frame includes an error checking field comprising at least two sub-fields, the data of the first sub-field being formed by a first error checking method performed on data of the frame and the data of the second sub-field being formed by a second error checking method performed on the said data of the frame, the first and second methods being such that the data of the first sub-field has different error checking properties from those of the data of the second sub-field.
Abstract:
A network bridge (10) is provided for interfacing between a first network, such as a Gigabit Ethernet (11), having a first protocol and a second network, such as a CLAN (1-9) having a second different protocol. The network bridge (10) has a buffer (29) which receives payload data from Ethernet packets and a buffer (30) which supplies CLAN headers corresponding to the final destination address in memory to which an application for processing the payload data of the packet requires delivery. The CLAN packets are assembled at (31) so that the payload data are delivered to the final memory destination address without the need for a protocol stack in a computer of the CLAN cluster 5.
Abstract:
A data processing system supporting a network interface device and comprising: a plurality of sets of one or more data processing cores; and an operating system arranged to support at least one socket operable to accept data received from the network, the data belonging to one of a plurality of data flows; wherein the socket is configured to provide an instance of at least some of the state associated with the data flows per said set of data processing cores.