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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2016
Innovium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Avinash Gyanendra Mani, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohammad K. Issa, Los Altos, CA (US);
Neil Barrett, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Innovium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory system for a network device is described. The memory system includes a main memory configured to store one or more data elements. Further, the memory system includes a link memory that is configured to maintain one or more pointers to interconnect the one or more data elements stored in the main memory. The memory system also includes a free-entry manager that is configured to generate an available bank set including one or more locations in the link memory. In addition, the memory system includes a context manager that is configured to maintain metadata for a list of the one or more data elements.