Adaptive Low Latency Receive Queues
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1. An adapter for processing and sending received low latency data packets to a low latency receive queue and for sending standard data packets for standard processing, the adapter comprising:
- a processing moans for receiving low latency data packets each having a packet header and payload data, for processing information contained in the packet header to construct completion queue information, for constructing a low latency data message comprising the completion queue information and the payload data, and for sending the constructed data message to a receive queue in a single transfer.
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Abstract
A receive queue provided in a computer system holds work completion information and message data together. An InfiniBand hardware adapter sends a single CQE+ message data to the computer system that includes the completion Information and data. This information is sufficient for the computer system to receive and process the data message, thereby providing a highly scalable low latency receiving mechanism.
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25 Claims
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1. An adapter for processing and sending received low latency data packets to a low latency receive queue and for sending standard data packets for standard processing, the adapter comprising:
a processing moans for receiving low latency data packets each having a packet header and payload data, for processing information contained in the packet header to construct completion queue information, for constructing a low latency data message comprising the completion queue information and the payload data, and for sending the constructed data message to a receive queue in a single transfer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer system comprising:
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a memory; a processor connected to said memory; an adapter slot for coupling a network adapter to the computer system; a low latency receive queue for storing low latency data messages each comprising a completion queue element and data which is received by the computer system via the adapter slot from the network adapter; and the completion queue element comprising a valid bit indicating that the entire completion queue element and data is stored in the receive queue and is visible to the processor. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A hardware adapter for coupling to a host system and to a network, the hardware adapter comprising:
a standard latency input buffer and a low latency virtual lane input buffer for storing standard and low latency network packets from the network, each low latency packet including message data and header data for the adapter to construct a single data message comprising completion queue information and data sufficient for the host system to process the data message. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A program storage device readable by machine, the program storage device tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform the method steps comprising:
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determining if an incoming data packet is a low latency unreliable datagram; if the incoming packet is determined to be the low latency unreliable datagram, then receiving the packet in a dedicated low latency input buffer;
reading a queue pair number in the received packet;obtaining queue pair context information corresponding to the queue pair number; and constructing a completion queue element based on the queue pair context information and on information in a header of the received packet and combining the completion queue element with payload data of the received packet into a current single data message sufficient for the host computer system to complete processing of the data message. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25)
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