Pre-fetching of data packets

The invention relates to pre-fetching of data packets. Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising receiving a data packet, and storing the received data packet in a memory; generating a descriptor for the data packet, the descriptor including information for fetchi...

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Hauptverfasser: HABUSHA ADI, PAIS ALON, KHOURY RABEEH
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Sprache:chi ; eng
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Zusammenfassung:The invention relates to pre-fetching of data packets. Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising receiving a data packet, and storing the received data packet in a memory; generating a descriptor for the data packet, the descriptor including information for fetching at least a portion of the data packet from the memory; and in advance of a processing core requesting the at least a portion of the data packet to execute a processing operation on the at least a portion of the data packet, fetching the at least a portion of the data packet to a cache based at least in part on information in the descriptor. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.