METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROTECT A PROTOCOL CONTROL BLOCK FOR NETWORK PACKET PROCESSING

摘要

A method and system to pre-fetch a protocol control block for network packet processing is described. The method includes receiving a packet, pre-fetching a protocol control block (PCB) associated with the packet into a cache, queuing the packet for processing, and retrieving the PCB from the cache when a processing unit is ready to process the packet.