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Apparatus and method for supporting received data processing in an offload of network protocol processing

  • US 20060015618A1
  • Filed: 07/14/2004
  • Published: 01/19/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, in a data processing system, for transferring data to a host system from a network adapter, comprising:

  • receiving, in the network adapter, the data for transferring to the host system;

    determining if a connection specific application buffer is allocated for a connection associated with the data;

    determining whether to wait for a specific application buffer to be allocated for the connection associated with the data, if a connection specific application buffer has not been allocated for the connection;

    selecting a non-connection specific application buffer from a pool of buffers to receive the data if it is determined not to wait for a specific application buffer to be allocated; and

    transferring the data to the selected non-connection specific application buffer.

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