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Method and apparatus for accessing a memory

US7617376B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims
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Filing dateAug 14, 2003
Grant dateNov 10, 2009
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Expiry dateNov 13, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L67/00
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The disclosed embodiments relate to an optimized memory registration mechanism that may comprise an upper layer protocol that associates I/O buffers with memory regions and that manages steering tags. The memory regions may be associated with a translation page table. The upper layer protocol may allocate one of the steering tags associated with at least one of the memory regions for a memory operation.

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