Patent ID: 8856420
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing, by a first port of a switching fabric of a multi-protocol interconnect to a second port of the switching fabric, a first credit grant packet and a second credit grant packet as indications of unoccupied space of a buffer associated with a path between the first port and a second port wherein the buffer is partitioned into at least two subsets and the first credit grant packet is an indication of unoccupied space of a first sub-set of the buffer, and wherein the second credit grant packet is an indication of unoccupied space of a second sub-set of the buffer and wherein the first subset of the buffer is a dedicated subset of the buffer that is allocated to data packets of a first protocol; simultaneously routing a first data packet of the first protocol and a second data packet of a second protocol, different from the first protocol, on the path from the second port to the first port based at least in part on receipt by the second port of the first and second credit grant packet; and storing the data packet of the first protocol in the first subset of the buffer and the data packet of the second protocol in the second subset of the buffer.