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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2002
Siu H Lam, Woodcliff Lake, NJ (US);
Kai X Miao, Boonton Township, NJ (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A dynamic data queuing mechanism for network packets is disclosed. A three-dimensional coil may be expanded or contracted in length. In addition, the size of each loop of the three-dimensional coil may be adjusted. Moreover, simple circular queue and dynamic buffer management techniques are combined to implement circular queues that may be adjusted in size. Size adjustment, in turn, causes an entire queue either to expand or contract. Circular queue size is changed dynamically, without any copying or moving of queue data. This advantage is attained with little overhead added to conventional circular queues, and is useful in reducing memory requirements for simple circular queues by adjusting queue size as needs change. This is particularly useful for multiple queues that share the same memory space.