Patent ID: 7269697

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a scheduler to manage the reading activity of a plurality of read hubs, each read hub capable of reading a piece of a packet from a different memory bank within a same cycle of operation so that pieces of different packets can be read from said memory banks within said same cycle of operation, said scheduler to: 1) define each read hub as an active read hub or inactive read hub, wherein an active read hub is engaged to read at least one packet from said memory banks and an inactive read hub is not so engaged; 2) define each active read hub as a low speed mode read hub or a high speed mode read hub, wherein, a first packet read by a high speed mode read hub is read from said memory banks at a faster rate than a second packet read by a low speed mode read hub; and 3) dynamically change the number of active read hubs, the number of low speed mode read hubs and the number of high speed mode read hubs in light of traffic conditions.