Method and apparatus for buffer management

Details Method and apparatus for buffer management Method and apparatus for buffer management

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G06F 13/14 (2006.01) G06F 13/40 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2182539

There is provided a method and apparatus for managing the buffer memory of a fibre channel switch to provide a memory management system that is responsible for coupling incoming and outgoing data frames or packets to internal switch data paths. The fibre channel switch has ports that support the transmission of frames between a first and second device coupled to the ports. A number of buffer memories at each port are employed for temporarily storing frames received from the first device prior to routing by the fibre channels switch to a destination port and the associated second device. A number of state machines each corresponding to a selected buffer memory maintain buffer status information representative of whether the buffer memory is available to receive a frame. The buffer status information is analyzed by status/control logic which directs a received frame to the first of the buffer memories at the first receiving port that becomes available and updates the state machine corresponding to the first available buffer.

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