Patent ID: 7668984

Claim:
A method of sending data packets over a network fabric comprising the steps of: a computer system generating and providing a plurality of data messages to be sent over the network fabric and individual host packets each comprising one of said plurality of data messages and each sufficient to build a corresponding packet header compatible with the network fabric; receiving at least one of the plurality of data messages; storing the at least one of the plurality of data messages to be sent over the network fabric; sending said one of said plurality of data messages with its corresponding packet header over the network fabric; providing a plurality of records each for storing one of said individual host packets; sizing the records equal to an amount of data in a cache line of the computer system; the computer system generating a host packet including an extended data message larger than each of said plurality of records; and assigning at least one additional record to the host packet including the extended data message for storing said extended data message.