Patent ID: 9344376
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A data handling system network comprising: a data handling system communicatively coupled to a switch by a network, the data handling system comprising: wherein the switch comprises one or more switch partitions, each switch partition comprising a plurality of QoS queues associated with the plurality of virtual network interface card QoS queues such that each virtual network interface card QoS queue has a corresponding switch partition QoS queue of a same priority level, wherein each of the plurality of QoS queues of each virtual network interface card and each corresponding switch partition comprises a queue pair having an ingress queue for ingress packets and an egress queue for egress packets, and wherein, for each of the plurality of QoS queues of each virtual network interface card, the egress queue is connected to an ingress queue of the corresponding switch partition QoS queue of the same priority level, and the ingress queue is connected to the egress queue of the corresponding switch partition QoS queue of the same priority level.