Intel Corporation

Adam Conyers

Hemanth Krishnan

Arvind Srinivasan

Ben-Zion Friedman

Simoni Ben-Michael

Tony Hurson

Noam Elati

Venkidesh Krishna Iyer

Sarig Livne

Michael G Lefevre

Examples described herein relate to a network interface device comprising a packet transmission scheduler. In some examples, the packet transmission scheduler is to: perform packet transmit arbitration among nodes, wherein based on a first node of the nodes having transmission paused by flow control, the perform packet transmit arbitration among nodes comprises retain relative priority of a packet departure time for the first node with respect to a second packet departure time associated with a second node of the nodes during a duration of flow control. In some examples, retaining relative priority of a packet departure time for the first node with respect to a second packet departure time associated with a second node of the nodes during a duration of flow control comprises adjust the packet departure time and the second packet departure time to stay within a time window but not rollover.

Packet transmission scheduling fairness

A transmitter can manage when a transmit queue is permitted to transmit and an amount of data permitted to be transmitted. After a transmit queue is permitted to transmit, the transmit queue can be placed in a sleep state if the transmit queue has exceeded its permitted data transmission quota. The wake time of the transmit queue can be scheduled based on a token accumulation rate for the transmit queue. The token accumulation rate can be increased if the transmit queue has other data to transmit after the data transmission. The token accumulation rate can be decreased if the transmit does not have other data to transmit.

Techniques to manage data transmissions

At a network-connected device, congestion at an egress queue can be detected. A potential source of congestion can be identified based on characteristics of a packet that caused the egress queue to become congested. The source of congestion can be a congestion group of transmitters. A group congestion message can be sent to the group of transmitters. The message can identify the packet that caused the egress queue to become congested. Transmitters can respond to the message by reducing their peak transmission rate.

Techniques to reduce network congestion

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