Haverstock & Owens LLP
Control path subsystem, method and device utilizing memory sharing
A packet processing system having a control path memory of a control path subsystem and a datapath memory of a datapath subsystem. The datapath subsystem stores packet data of incoming packets and the control path subsystem performs matches of a subset of packet data, or a hash of the packet data, against the contents of a the control path memory in order to process the packets. The packet processing system enabling a portion of the datapath memory to be used by the control subsystem if needed or a portion of the control path memory to be used by the datapath subsystem if needed.
Cavium, Inc.
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Enrique Weihuang
Musoll Wang