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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Claude Basso, Nice, FR;
Nikolaos Chrysos, Thalwil, CH;
Cyriel Minkenberg, Gutenswil, CH;
David A. Shedivy, Rochester, MN (US);
Kenneth M. Valk, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian T. Vanderpool, Byron, MN (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for synchronizing multicast message subflows in a switched network includes associating, with a processing device, a first destination identifier corresponding to a multicast message with a first queue that corresponds to a first output port of a switching device, associating, with a processing device, a second destination identifier corresponding to the multicast message with a second queue that corresponds to a second output port of the switching device, pausing the first queue in response to a message counter corresponding to the first queue crossing a first predetermined threshold, and unpausing the first queue in response to the message counter crossing a second predetermined threshold, wherein the message counter indicates a quantity of data that has been forwarded by the first queue but remains to be forwarded by the second queue.