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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2018
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Said Bshara, Tira, IL;
Clint Joseph Sbisa, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A network device, such as a Network Interface Card (NIC), can have a receive queue (RxQ) that changes size based on whether the network device is in a normal operating mode or in a maintenance mode. In a normal operating mode, it is desirable that the receive queue has a smaller number of free buffers, to increase cache locality in a processor subsystem. However, there can be known periods when the receive queue can be overloaded. During a maintenance period, it is desirable that the receive queue absorbs a large burst of network packets while the processor subsystem is not processing the packets. A solution is to maintain a receive queue at a smaller percentage of its maximum during the normal operation mode, but then before or upon entering the maintenance mode, expand the receive queue to a larger size.