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Technologies for flexible protocol acceleration

US10884968B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Matthew J. Adiletta · Bolton, US
Bradley A. Burres · Waltham, US
Duane E. Galbi · Marlborough, US
Amit Kumar · Folsom, US
Yadong Li · Portland, US
Salma Mirza · Santa Clara, US
Jose Niell · Franklin, US
Thomas E. Willis · Portland, US
William Duggan · Santa Clara, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 27, 2019
Grant date	Jan 5, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 22, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2213/0026
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Technologies for flexible I/O protocol acceleration include a computing device having a root complex, a smart endpoint coupled to the root complex, and an offload complex coupled to the smart endpoint. The smart endpoint receives an I/O transaction that originates from the root complex and parses the I/O transaction based on an I/O protocol and identifies an I/O command. The smart endpoint may parse the I/O transaction based on endpoint firmware that may be programmed by the computing device. The smart endpoint accelerates the I/O command and provides a smart context to the offload complex. The smart endpoint may copy the I/O command to memory of the smart endpoint or the offload complex. The smart endpoint may identify protocol data based on the I/O command and copy the protocol data to the memory of the smart endpoint or the offload complex. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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