US Patent Issued to Red Hat on March 17 for "Efficient queue access for user-space packet processing" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,083, issued on March 17, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Efficient queue access for user-space packet processing" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method may include determining whether a preemption flag associated with a first input/output (I/O) handling thread is equal to a first value indicating that preemption of the first I/O queue handling thread is forthcoming, wherein the first I/O queue handling thread is executing on a first processor, the first I/O queue handling thread is associated with a first set of one or more queue identifiers, and each queue iden...