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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
Claude Basso, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jean L. Calvignac, Raleigh, NC (US);
Chih-jen Chang, Apex, NC (US);
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Terry L. Nelms, Ii, Dallas, GA (US);
Fabrice Jean Verplanken, LaGaude, FR;
Claude Basso, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jean L. Calvignac, Raleigh, NC (US);
Chih-Jen Chang, Apex, NC (US);
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Terry L. Nelms, II, Dallas, GA (US);
Fabrice Jean Verplanken, LaGaude, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Assigning work, such as data packets, from a plurality of sources, such as data queues in a network processing device, to a plurality of sinks, such as processor threads in the network processing device is provided. In a given processing period, sinks that are available to receive work are identified and sources qualified to send work to the available sinks are determined taking into account any assignment constraints. A single source is selected from an overlap of the qualified sources and sources having work available. This selection may be made using a hierarchical source scheduler for processing subsets of supported sources simultaneously in parallel. A sink to which work from the selected source may be assigned is selected from available sinks qualified to receive work from the selected source.