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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2003
David Romano, Cumberland, RI (US);
Gilbert M. Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);
Donald F. Hooper, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
David Romano, Cumberland, RI (US);
Gilbert M. Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);
Donald F. Hooper, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A scheduling mechanism to control transmission of data units, such as variable size packets or fixed size cells, to ports of a network device such as a switching fabric system. The scheduling mechanism maintains scheduling data structures, including an array storing information for available queues of ports and circular buffers representing nonempty port queues of the available port queues according to classes of service. The scheduling mechanism uses the data structures to make scheduling decisions concerning the scheduling of data units in the nonempty port queues for transmission to the ports.