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AssigneeLSI Corporation
InventorsDeepak Mital, James Clee, Jerry Pirog, Te Khac Ma, Steven J. Pollock
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Described embodiments classify packets received by a network processor. A processing module of the network processor generates tasks corresponding to each received packet. A packet classification processor determines, independent of a flow identifier of the received task, control data corresponding to each task. A multi-thread instruction engine processes threads of instructions corresponding to received tasks, each task corresponding to a packet flow of the network processor and maintains a thread status table and a sequence counter for each flow. Active threads are tracked by the thread status table, and each status entry includes a sequence value and a flow value identifying the flow. Each sequence counter generates a sequence value for each thread by incrementing the sequence counter each time processing of a thread for the associated flow is started, and decrementing the sequence counter each time a thread for the associated flow is completed.
A packet classification processor for a network processor having a plurality of processing modules and at least one shared memory, wherein the network processor generates one or more tasks corresponding to each of a plurality of received packets and provides the tasks to the packet classification processor, the packet classification processor comprising:
A method of classifying packets received by a network processor having a plurality of processing modules and at least one shared memory, the method comprising:
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, having encoded thereon program code, wherein, when the program code is executed by a machine, the machine implements a method of classifying packets received by a network processor having a plurality of processing modules and at least one shared memory, the method comprising:
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