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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 25, 2013
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Wilson Parkhurst Snyder, II, Holliston, MA (US);
Thomas Frederick Hummel, Natick, MA (US);
Anna Karen Kujtkowski, Rochdale, MA (US);
CAVIUM, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and a system embodying the method for virtualization of a quality of service, comprising associating a packet received at an interface with an aura via an aura identifier; determining configuration parameters for the aura; determining a pool for the aura; determining the state of the pool resources, the resources comprising a level of buffers available in the pool and a level of buffers allocated to the aura; and determining a quality of service for the packet in accordance with the determined state of the pool and the configuration parameters for the aura, is disclosed.