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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2019
Barefoot Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Parag D. Bhide, San Ramon, CA (US);
Alain Loge, South Lake Tahoe, CA (US);
Chaitanya Kodeboyina, Los Altos, CA (US);
Anurag Agrawal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Barefoot Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for a hardware forwarding element. Based on a set of characteristics of a packet, the method determines to copy a packet to a particular temporary storage of a set of temporary storages of the hardware forwarding element. Based on a property of the particular temporary storage, the method stores only a particular portion of the packet in the particular temporary storage. A same size portion of each packet copied to the particular temporary storage is stored in the particular temporary storage.