Bypassing congestion points in a converged enhanced ethernet fabric

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9197563
APP PUB NO 20150078170A1
SERIAL NO

14501491

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Embodiments relate to bypassing congestion points in a network. An aspect includes sampling queues of a plurality of switches in a network. When packet congestion is detected at a congestion point of a first switch, the packet flow contributing to the packet congestion is identified. A congestion notification message indicating the identified packet flow is then propagated to upstream switches, which are upstream from the first switch in the network. The congestion notification message is then snooped by the upstream switches. Virtual queues within the upstream switches are associated with the identified packet flow to hold packets associated with the identified packet flow. The packets associated with the identified packet flow are then re-routed to bypass the packet congestion in the first switch.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chrysos, Nikolaos Thalwil, CH 21 118
Crisan, Daniel Adliswil, CH 22 275
DeCusatis, Casimer M Poughkeepsie, US 272 3597
Gusat, Mircea Langnau, CH 66 1186
Minkenberg, Cyriel J Gutenswil, CH 54 708

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