Patent ID: 11949605
Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method of recirculating a packet, the method comprising:
marking a first packet for recirculation in an ingress pipeline;
providing the first packet to an egress pipeline;
providing the first packet from the egress pipeline to an egress data buffer and providing a copy of the first packet to a recirculation data buffer;
providing the copy of the first packet to a recirculation port of an ingress data buffer of the ingress pipeline from the recirculation data buffer; and
returning credits with cell length from the egress pipeline for dropped/truncated packets at enqueue of the recirculation data buffer and enqueued packets
at dequeue of the recirculation data buffer via a credit line between the recirculation data buffer and a memory management unit.