Packets transfer device that intelligently accounts for variable egress channel widths when scheduling use of dispatch bus by egressing packet streams
US8437369B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 19, 2006 |
| Grant date | May 7, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 21, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/6215
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In PCI-Express and alike communications systems, data bandwidth per channel can vary as a result of negotiated port aggregation and/or bifurcation during network bring-up. Disclosed are systems and methods for opportunistically interleaving dispatches of packet data for secondary egress channels when the data bandwidth of a primary egress channel is relatively small and thus creates slack on a dispatch bus between dispatches of primary data blocks.
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