Network interface device and host processing device

A method performed in network interface device comprising:

• receiving data from a network, said data being for one of a plurality of different applications;
• determining which of a plurality of available different caches in a host system said data is to be injected by accessing a receive queue comprising at least one descriptor indicating a cache location in one of said plurality of caches to which data is to be injected, wherein said at least one descriptor, which indicates the cache location, has an effect on subsequent descriptors of said receive queue until a next descriptor indicates another cache location;
• and
• causing said data to be injected to the determined cache in said host system.

A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions, in which the instructions when executed enable the execution of the steps of:

• receiving data from a network, said data being for one of a plurality of different applications;
• determining which of a plurality of available different caches in a host system said data is to be injected by accessing a receive queue comprising at least one descriptor indicating a cache location in one of said plurality of caches to which data is to be injected, wherein said at least one descriptor, which indicates the cache location, has an effect on subsequent descriptors of said receive queue until a next descriptor indicates another cache location;
• and
• causing said data to be injected to the determined cache in said host system.