Backlogged queue manager
OwnerMuthaiah Venkatachalaminventor
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Abstract
A system, apparatus, method and article to manage backlogged queues are described. The apparatus may include a backlogged queue manager to manage one or more queues. The backlogged queue manager may include a backlogged queue list to store a list of one or more active queues, a scheduler block to dequeue a queue identification corresponding to an active queue, and a queue manager block to dequeue one or more packets from said active queue. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims26
An apparatus, comprising:
- a backlogged queue manager to manage one or more queues, the backlogged queue manager comprising:
- a backlogged queue list to store a list of one or more active queues, each active queue comprising one or more packets;
- a scheduler block to dequeue a queue identification corresponding to an active queue;
- and
- a queue manager block to dequeue one or more packets from said active queue.
A system, comprising:
- a processing node to process information received from a source node, said processing node to comprise at least one line card and a backlogged queue manager, said backlogged queue manager to manage one or more queues, said backlogged queue manager comprising:
- a backlogged queue list to store a list of one or more active queues, each active queue comprising one or more packets;
- a scheduler block to dequeue a queue identification corresponding to an active queue;
- and
- a queue manager block to dequeue one or more packets from said active queue.
A method, comprising:
- storing a backlogged queue list of one or more active queues, each active queue comprising one or more packets;
- dequeuing a queue identification corresponding to an active queue;
- and
- dequeuing one or more packets from said active queue.
An article comprising a machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:
- store a backlogged queue list of one or more active queues, each active queue comprising one or more packets;
- dequeue a queue identification corresponding to an active queue;
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- dequeue one or more packets from said active queue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.