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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
May. 12, 2008
Amit Kanda, San Jose, CA (US);
Sathish Kumar Gnanasekaran, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vineet Mathew Abraham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qingyuan MA, Saratoga, CA (US);
Amit Kanda, San Jose, CA (US);
Sathish Kumar Gnanasekaran, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vineet Mathew Abraham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qingyuan Ma, Saratoga, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates congestion management in a Fibre Channel (FC) network. During operation, the system determines a threshold data rate on an outgoing link coupled to an FC switch. The system further determines the number of sources that send data to the outgoing link and an aggregate arrival rate of data for the outgoing link. Next, the system determines an injection data rate for a respective source based on the threshold data rate on the outgoing link, the number of sources transmitting data to the outgoing link, and the aggregate arrival data rate for the outgoing link. Subsequently, the system communicates the injection data rate to the source, thereby allowing the source to throttle its data injection in the FC network to prevent network congestion.