Patent ID: 11907751
Assignee: PENSANDO SYSTEMS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. An input output (IO) device comprising:
a plurality of pipelined stages; and
a plurality of hardware meters, each of which is assigned to a determine whether received packets are permitted to enter a respective stage of the plurality of pipelined stages, wherein each of the plurality of hardware meters is configured to:
track a first metric regarding a usage of a hardware resource in the respective stage when processing packets received from a first logical interface (LIF),
track a second metric regarding a usage of a hardware resource in the respective stage when processing packets received from a second LIF,
block the packets received from the first LIF from being processed by the respective stage when the first metric satisfies a first threshold, and
block the packets received from the second LIF from being processed by the respective stage when the second metric satisfies a second threshold, wherein the first and second thresholds are different.