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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2013
Applicant:
Pmc-sierra Us, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04J 3/24 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/082 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for a flexible routing engine in a PCIe switch. The system may include a switch manager that is enabled, through firmware, to configure one or more routing tables associated with a switch stack of a PCIe switch. The method may include receiving a configuration transaction layer packet at the switch manager of a PCIe switch, running firmware at the switch manager to identify a desired behavior of a switch stack of the switch and updating one or more routing tables associated with switch stack.