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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2001
William John Goetzinger, Rochester, MN (US);
Glen Howard Handlogten, Rochester, MN (US);
James Francis Mikos, Rochester, MN (US);
David Alan Norgaard, Rochester, MN (US);
Daniel James Sucher, Rochester, MN (US);
William John Goetzinger, Rochester, MN (US);
Glen Howard Handlogten, Rochester, MN (US);
James Francis Mikos, Rochester, MN (US);
David Alan Norgaard, Rochester, MN (US);
Daniel James Sucher, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A scheduler for a network processor includes one or more scheduling queues. Each scheduling queue defines a respective sequence in which flows are to be serviced. A respective empty indicator is associated with each scheduling queue to indicate whether the respective scheduling queue is empty. By referring to the empty indicators, it is possible to avoid wasting operating cycles of the scheduler on searching scheduling queues that are empty.