System and method of processing control plane data
AssigneeArista Networks, Inc.
InventorsFrancois Labonte, Hug W. Holbrook
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Abstract
A method and apparatus of a network element that processes control plane data in a network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element receives control plane data and determines a class of the control plane data. In addition, the network element marks the control plane data based on at least on an existence of an indication of whether the network element had previously processed other data in the same class as the class of the control plane data. Furthermore, the network element queues the control plane data.
Claims32
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to process control plane data in a network element, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the network element, the control plane data, wherein the control plane data is data that is processed by a control plane of the network element;
- determining a class of the received control plane data;
- marking the received control plane data based on an existence of an indication of whether the network element had previously processed other data in the same class as the determined class of the received control plane data and
- queuing the received control plane data.
A method to process control plane data in a network element, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the network element, the control plane data, wherein the control plane data is data that is processed by a control plane of the network element;
- determining a class of the received control plane data;
- marking the received control plane data based on an existence of an indication of whether the network element had previously processed other data in the same class as the determined class of the received control plane data;
- and
- queuing the received control plane data.
A network element to process control plane data, the network element comprising:
- a port;
- a data plane, coupled to the port, to receive control plane data via the port;
- and
- a control plane, coupled to the data plane, that includes,
- memory that stores instructions that when executed by the network element causes the control plane to receive the control plane data from the data plane, determine a class of the control plane data, mark the control plane data based on an existence of an indication of whether the network element had previously processed other data in the same class as the determined class of the received control plane data, and queue the received control plane data, wherein the received control plane data is data that is processed by a control plane of the network element.
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