CM-5: User-Level Network Access

• Memory Mapped, on Mem bus

• Context Switch Network

• User vs System Message

• 2 networks (right,left) can be used for request, response

• Other archs, add registers for tighter integration w/ network

  • Processor involved in each network transaction

Tail

Data

Dest

Memory

Processor

status,

interrupt

U/S

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