Steven H Pollock

US Patent:

20110289179, Nov 24, 2011

Filed:

Jul 27, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/192140

Inventors:

Hakan I. Pekcan - Basking Ridge NJ, US
Steven J. Pollock - Allentown PA, US
Jerry Pirog - Easton PA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/167

US Classification:

709213

Abstract:

Described embodiments provide a method of updating configuration data of a network processor having one or more processing modules and a shared memory. A control processor of the network processor writes updated configuration data to the shared memory and sends a configuration update request to a configuration manager. The configuration update request corresponds to the updated configuration data. The configuration manager determines whether the configuration update request corresponds to settings of a given one of the processing modules. If the configuration update request corresponds to settings of a given one of the one or more processing modules, the configuration manager, sends one or more configuration operations to a destination one of the processing modules corresponding to the configuration update request and updated configuration data. The destination processing module updates one or more register values corresponding to configuration settings of the processing module with the corresponding updated configuration data.