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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2022
Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Joseph Featherston, Boston, MA (US);
Aadeetya Shreedhar, Natick, MA (US);
Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A circuit and corresponding method employ directional link (DL) credit pools. The circuit comprises the DL credit pools and transmit (TX) port logic. The DL credit pools are associated with neighboring node (NBN) TX ports of a NBN on a chip. The NBN is coupled to a node on the chip via the circuit. The node includes the circuit. The TX port logic admits a received packet to the circuit based on routing information in the received packet and produces a TX packet by updating the routing information, in the received packet admitted, to indicate a NBN TX port of the NBN TX ports. The TX port logic transmits the TX packet produced to the NBN based on a DL credit pool of the DL credit pools that is associated with the NBN TX port indicated. Use of the DL credit pool mitigates head-of-line blocking under bursty traffic conditions.