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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2016
Mellanox Technologies Tlv Ltd., Raanana, IL;
Barak Gafni, Campbell, CA (US);
Benny Koren, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
George Elias, Tel Aviv, IL;
Itamar Rabenstein, Petah Tikva, IL;
Eyal Srebro, Akko, IL;
Sagi Kuks, Ramat Gan, IL;
Niv Aibester, Herzliya, IL;
Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd., Raanana, IL;
Abstract
A method for communication includes receiving and forwarding packets in multiple flows to respective egress interfaces of a switching element for transmission to a network. For each of one or more of the egress interfaces, in each of a succession of arbitration cycles, a respective number of the packets in each of the plurality of the flows that are queued for transmission through the egress interface is assessed, and the flows for which the respective number is zero are assigned to a first group, while the flows for which the respective number is non-zero are assigned to a second group. The received packets that have been forwarded to the egress interface and belong to the flows in the first group are transmitted with a higher priority than the flows in the second group.