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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2019
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Adi Menachem, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Alex Shpiner, Nesher, IL;
Noam Bloch, Bat Shlomo, IL;
Eitan Zahavi, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Idan Burstein, Carmiel, IL;
Dror Bohrer, Nesher, IL;
Roee Moyal, Yokneam Illit, IL;
MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A network adapter includes a host interface and circuitry. The host interface is configured to connect locally between the network adapter and a host via a bus. The circuitry is configured to receive from one or more source nodes, over a communication network to which the network adapter is coupled, multiple packets destined to the host, and temporarily store the received packets in a queue of the network adapter, to send the stored packets from the queue to the host over the bus, to monitor a performance attribute of the bus, and in response to detecting, based at least on the monitored performance attribute, an imminent overfilling state of the queue, send a congestion notification to at least one of the source nodes from which the received packets originated.