Patent ID: 6473815
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method for operating a plurality of queues of a port, comprising:ordering the queues based on a plurality of classes, the classes ranging from low to high; generating a threshold for each of the queues that corresponds to a performance assigned to each of the queues; and generating corresponding thresholds for each of the queues that corresponds to one or more classes higher than a class of each of the queues; setting one or more queue full conditions for each of the queues when a performance of each of the queue cannot be met based on corresponding one or more thresholds, wherein a queue is full when a corresponding full condition is set; receiving data destined for a first queue of the queues; placing the data in the first queue if the first queue is not full; and placing the data in a second queue of the queues if the first queue is full.