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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2009
Wladyslaw Olesinski, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Hans Eberle, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nils Gura, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wladyslaw Olesinski, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Hans Eberle, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nils Gura, Mountain View, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a system that includes a switch and a buffer-management technique for storing signals in the system are described. In this system, data cells are dynamically assigned from a host buffer to at least a subset of switch-ingress buffers in the switch based at least in part on the occupancy of the switch-ingress buffers. This buffer-management technique may reduce the number of switch-ingress buffers relative to the number of input and output ports to the switch, which in turn may overcome the limitations posed by the amount of memory available on chips, thereby facilitating large switches.