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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
May. 11, 2000
Ryan S. Holmqvist, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A priority history module monitors the past history of data packets submitted to the hardware queue with respect to two or more priority levels. The priority queuing module may use any suitable arbitration or other algorithm to order the submission of data packets of varying priorities from the various software data queues, as is otherwise conventional, particularly when data packets of all types of priorities are currently waiting for submission to the transmit data queue. However, when an absence of a particular priority level occurs (e.g., when no highest priority data packets are waiting for submission), then latency of the transmit data queue is adaptively balanced with throughput of the transmit data queue, in accordance with the principles of the present invention. Latency of the data packets currently in the relevant data queue may be estimated to further qualify the adaptively adjusted limit to the data queue.