System for communicating between network end-points using a payload offset and buffer pool handle

摘要

A system for addressing end-points in a network wherein a transmission is sent between a source end-point and a destination end-point via a respective source port and a destination port connected by a fabric. A payload offset and buffer pool handle are included in a network header sent with the transmission. The buffer pool handle is used to determine a specific queue of pool buffers within the destination port. A pool buffer descriptor, describing a header buffer and a payload buffer each within the destination end-point, is dequeued from a queue indicated by the buffer pool handle. The payload offset in the network header is then decoded to locate a first number of bytes of data in the transmission to be transferred into the header buffer a second number of bytes of data to be transferred into the payload buffer.