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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Harsha Bharadwaj, Bangalore, IN;
Rajesh L G, Bangalore, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for moving buffers between ports, or virtual lanes of a port, of a networking device of a credited network while maintaining the ports in an active state without dropping any frames. The techniques may include determining that a number of buffers are to be reallocated from a first port of a networking device to a second port of the networking device. The techniques may also include causing a peer port connected to the first port to decrement, by the number, a transmit credit counter associated with the peer port. Based at least in part on determining that the peer port decremented the transmit credit counter, the first port may release the number of the buffers from a buffer pool associated with the first port, and the number of the buffers may be reallocated to the second port.