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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1999
Michael E. Baskey, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Frank W. Brice, Jr., Hurley, NY (US);
Steven G. Glassen, Wallkill, NY (US);
Eugene P. Hefferon, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Bruce H. Ratcliff, Red Hook, NY (US);
Arthur J. Stagg, Raleigh, NC (US);
Stephen R. Valley, Valatie, NY (US);
Daniel F. Casper, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Allan S. Meritt, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Anthony R. Sager, Red Hook, NY (US);
Donald W. Schmidt, Stone Ridge, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A queuing method and apparatus for transfer or incoming and outgoing data in a network environment having a main storage is presented. A plurality of queue sets are provided in the main storage with at least one or more sets being dedicated for input and output. The queues can share access to a plurality of devices in the network across a plurality of communication stacks. Various network resources are mapped to the queues in order to facilitate resource allocation and dynamic configuration by providing initialization of a plurality of configuration parameters. In this way dynamic expanding and contracting of the number of queues in each set as dictated by traffic patterns and feedback indicators is provided.