A Practical Guide to Intel's Network Processors
by Bill Carlson

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Intel® IXA is fully software programmable and uses memory for storing data structures and buffering packet data. Specifically, IXP2XXX network processors use ring buffers and linked lists to pass messages and data between microengines and buffer packets in DRAM. The following section will give you a good feel for how linked lists are used by IXP2xxx network processors.

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