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Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 04, 2012
Applicants:

Kenneth M. Steele, Waltham, MA (US);

Vijay Aggarwal, Marlborough, MA (US);

Inventors:

Kenneth M. Steele, Waltham, MA (US);

Vijay Aggarwal, Marlborough, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/861 (2013.01); H04L 12/869 (2013.01); H04L 12/873 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/90 (2013.01); H04L 47/60 (2013.01); H04L 47/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

Processing packets in a system that includes a plurality of interconnected processing cores is described. The processing includes receiving packets into one or more queues, associating at least some nodes in a hierarchy of nodes with at least one of the queues, and at least some of the nodes with a rate, mapping a set of one or more nodes to a processor core based on a level in the hierarchy of the nodes in the set and at least one rate associated with a node not in the set, and processing the packets in the mapped processor cores according to the hierarchy.


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