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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009

Filed:

Aug. 05, 2002
Applicants:

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);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Extreme Networks, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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 ingress queue manager on the same or on another blade where each blade is connected via a backplane switch. The egress queue managers communicate the congestion to ingress queue managers using a messaging scheme. The ingress queue managers determine when to reduce or resume the packet sending rates of ingress queues mapped to congested egress queues or to destinations on congested blades. Each ingress queue manager maintains information about the status of egress queue congestion on its own blades. Normal rates of dequeuing packets from ingress queues are resumed only when the related congestion on all of the egress queues or related destinations has subsided.


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