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US 7,411,959 B2Granted
System and method for handling out-of-order frames
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorUri Elzur
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Abstract
Aspects of the invention may be found in a method and system for handling out-of-order frames. In one embodiment, a method includes, for example, one or more of the following: receiving an out-of-order frame via a network interface card (NIC); placing data of the out-of-order frame in a host memory; and managing information relating to one or more holes in a receive window.
Claims15
A method for handling out-of-order frames, comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving an out-of-order frame via a network subsystem;
- (b) placing data of the out-of-order frame in a host memory;
- (c) managing information relating to one or more holes resulting from the out-of-order frame in a receive window;
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- (d) setting a programmable limit with respect to a number of holes allowed in the receive window.
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