Innovium, Inc.

Neil Barrett

Mohammad Kamel Issa

Avinash Gyanendra Mani

William Brad Matthews

Bruce Hui Kwan

A memory system for a network device is described. The memory system includes a main memory configured to store one or more data elements. Further, the memory system includes a link memory that is configured to maintain one or more pointers to interconnect the one or more data elements stored in the main memory. The memory system also includes a free-entry manager that is configured to generate an available bank set including one or more locations in the link memory. In addition, the memory system includes a context manager that is configured to maintain metadata for a list of the one or more data elements.

System and method for enabling high read rates to data element lists

A memory system for a network device is described. The memory system includes a packing data buffer including a plurality of memory banks arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The packing data buffer is configured to store incoming data elements of a plurality of widths in the plurality of memory banks. The memory system also includes a free address manager configured to generate an available bank set based on one or more free memory banks in the plurality of memory banks. And, the memory system includes distributed link memory configured to maintain one or more pointers to interconnect a set of one or more memory locations of the one or more memory banks in the packing data buffer to generate at least one list.

System and methods for flexible data access containers

A memory system for a network device is described. The memory system includes a main memory configured to store one or more data elements. Further, the memory system includes a parent distributed-linked list configured to store linked-list metadata. And, the memory system includes a child distributed-linked list configured to maintain list metadata to interconnect the one or more data elements stored in the main memory to generate at least a first snapshot, said linked-list metadata references the snapshot.

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Neil Barrett