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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2009
Applicants:
Sha MA, San Jose, CA (US);
Karthik Mandakolathur, Milpitas, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sha Ma, San Jose, CA (US);
Karthik Mandakolathur, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, separate rate meters are maintained for each flow enqueued an increased at a target rate while a packet from the flow occupies the head of a shared transmit queue. The meter value is decreased by the packet length when a packet in enqueued or dropped. The next packet that occupies the head of the shared transmit queue is dropped if the meter value corresponding to the flow is greater than a threshold.