Patent ID: 11928504
Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 45:
46. An interface unit, the interface unit comprising:
a network interface; and
a work-queue entry (WQE) generator implemented in hardware of the interface unit, the WQE generator configured to generate a WQE, associated with packet data received by the network interface, the WQE belonging to a scheduling group, the scheduling group assigned to an in-unit accounting (IUA) identifier, the IUA identifier associated with an IUA count and IUA threshold, the interface unit communicatively coupled to a virtualized scheduler, the WQE generator further configured to transmit the WQE to the virtualized scheduler to be queued for scheduling based on the IUA count and IUA threshold;
wherein the IUA identifier corresponds to a virtual machine, an application, or a physical function (PF) or virtual function (VF) associated with a single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) interface.