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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2021
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Jason D. Jung, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Norell E. Menhusen, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Christopher M. Brueggen, Allen, TX (US);
David M. Olson, Grapeland, TX (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A virtual channel (VC) allocation system is provided. During operation, the system can maintain, at an ingress port of a switch, a set of counters. A respective counter can indicate a number of data units queued at a corresponding egress port for an ingress VC. A data unit can indicate a minimum number of bits needed to form a packet. The system can maintain, at an egress port, an ingress VC indicator indicating that a packet in an egress buffer for an egress VC corresponds to the ingress VC. Upon sending the packet, the system can update a counter based on the ingress VC indicator. The counter can be associated with the egress buffer and the ingress VC. The system can then issue, to a sender device, credits associated with the ingress VC based on a minimum number of available data units indicated by the set of counters.