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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2021
Cortina Access, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Donggun Keung, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
REALTEK SINGAPORE PTE LTD., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A packet forwarding device and a queue management method are provided. The queue management method is applicable to a plurality of priority queues each associated with a different transmission priority. The queue management method includes: allocating at least one buffer from a free buffer pool to each of the priority queues; monitoring a number of dropped packets of an observation queue of the priority queues; and increasing a number of buffers for the observation queue and decreasing a number of buffers for at least one of the priority queues which has a lower transmission priority than the observation queue, according to the number of dropped packets.