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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2001
Jeffrey Scott Kuskin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tao-fei Samuel NG, Fremont, CA (US);
Andrew M. Davidson, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Kuskin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tao-Fei Samuel Ng, Fremont, CA (US);
Andrew M. Davidson, San Jose, CA (US);
Atheros Communications, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of queue management includes: adding entries having a first priority to a first software queue; adding entries having a second priority to a second software queue; reading entries from the first software queue to a physical queue; at a threshold time, flushing entries from the physical queue; after the act of flushing the physical queue, reading entries from the second software queue to the physical queue until a termination criterion is satisfied; after the termination criterion is satisfied, reading entries from the first software queue to the physical queue; and transmitting entries from the physical queue to a network.