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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2015
Qlogic, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Frank R. Dropps, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Gary M. Papenfuss, St. Paul, MN (US);
Leo J. Slechta, Jr., Eagan, MN (US);
QLOGIC, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for a network device are provided. The network device includes a stage one arbiter for a base-port having a plurality of sub-ports for determining if there are any pending requests; blocking any other requests from a same receive queue destined for a same sub-port, same transmit queue when there are any pending requests; selecting a group of requests with a highest priority and available resources; selecting highest priority requests; selecting an oldest one of the highest priority requests; sending the selected requests to a stage two arbiter for selecting a request with a highest priority and when there are requests that have a same priority, selecting an oldest request for processing.