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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2005
Applicants:
Sunay Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Nicolas G. Droux, San Jose, CA (US);
Hsiao-keng Jerry Chu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sunay Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Nicolas G. Droux, San Jose, CA (US);
Hsiao-Keng Jerry Chu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Incoming/outgoing data packets to/from a network are processed by associated receive/send rings of a network interface. A plurality of counters, disposed in hardware, are each associated with particular receive/send rings. Each of the plurality of counters maintains a count of a number of data packets processed by an associated receive/send ring.