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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2002
Rajarshi Gupta, Berkeley, CA (US);
Justin Chueh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ravi Tangirala, San Jose, CA (US);
Meera Kasinathan, San Jose, CA (US);
Erik Swenson, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajarshi Gupta, Berkeley, CA (US);
Justin Chueh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ravi Tangirala, San Jose, CA (US);
Meera Kasinathan, San Jose, CA (US);
Erik Swenson, San Jose, CA (US);
Extreme Networks, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system is provided to enable quality of service across a backplane switch. An egress queue manager on one blade communicates with an egress queue manager on another blade where each blade is connected via a backplane switch. When a blade becomes congested, egress queues mapped to a destination on the congested blade also become congested. The egress queue managers determine when to reduce or resume the packet sending rates of egress queues mapped to destinations on congested blades using a messaging scheme. Each egress queue manager maintains notifications of the status of egress queue congestion on its own and other blades. Normal rates of dequeuing packets are resumed only when the related congestion on all of the blades has subsided.