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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Kelvin Chan, San Jose, CA (US);
Ganga S. Devadas, Milpitas, CA (US);
Chih-Tsung Huang, Burlingame, CA (US);
Wei-Jen Huang, Burlingame, CA (US);
Dennis K. D. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Yue J. Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Buffer designs and write/read configurations for a buffer in a network device are provided. According to one aspect, a first portion of the packet is written into a first cell of a plurality of cells of a buffer in the network device. Each of the cells has a size that is less than a minimum size of packets received by the network device. The first portion of the packet can be read from the first cell while concurrently writing a second portion of the packet to a second cell.