METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING PACKET BUFFERS

摘要

According to one example embodiment of the inventive subject matter, there is described herein a method and apparatus for securely and efficiently managing packet buffers between protection domains on an Intra-partitioned system using packet queues and triggers. According to one embodiment described in more detail below, there is provided a method and apparatus for optimally transferring packet data across contexts (protected and unprotected) in a commodity operating system.