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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2021
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Dotan David Levi, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;
Wojciech Wasko, Młynek, PL;
Natan Manevich, Ramat HaSharon, IL;
Hillel Chapman, Ramat Hashofet, IL;
Roi Geuli, Moshav ein Haemek, IL;
Eyal Serbro, Kefar Yehoshua, IL;
MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A network device includes a port, a transmission pipeline and a time-stamping circuit. The port is configured for connecting to a network. The transmission pipeline includes multiple pipeline stages and is configured to process packets and to send the packets to the network via the port. The time-stamping circuit is configured to temporarily suspend at least some processing of at least a given packet in the transmission pipeline, to verify whether a pipeline stage having a variable processing delay, located downstream from the time-stamping circuit, meets an emptiness condition, and, only when the pipeline stage meets the emptiness condition, to time-stamp the given packet and resume the processing of the given packet.