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Abstract

The invention relates to controlling memory-usage of a functional component, e.g. a network interface of a router or a switch. A portion of a virtual memory organized to comprise virtual memory pages is reserved (201) for the use of the functional component. Mapping between the virtual memory pages and physical memory areas implemented with a physical memory is formed (202), and data items providing accesses to the physical memory areas are written (203) to one or more of the physical memory areas. The functional component is enabled to directly access to a physical memory area mapped to a virtual memory page so that the data item that provides access to this physical memory area is read (204) from the physical memory with the aid of the mapping and a virtual memory address related to the virtual memory page, and the read data item is delivered (205) to the functional component.

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First Claim