公开(公告)号：US20200371708A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16416290

申请日：2019-05-20

Applicant: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.

Inventor： Karin Karmani ,  Lion Levi ,  Zachy Haramaty ,  Ran Shani

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  H04L12/861

Abstract: A network element including buffer address control circuitry for reading a given entry from a queue in a memory of a device external to the network element, the queue having at least a first entry and a last entry, the given entry including a destination address in the memory, output circuitry for writing data included in a packet received from external to the network element to the destination address in the memory in accordance with the given entry, and next entry assignment circuitry for assigning a next entry by: when the given entry is other than the last entry in the first queue, assigning the next entry to be an entry in the first queue after the given entry, and when the given entry is the last entry in the first queue, assigning the next entry to be the first entry in the first queue. Related apparatus and methods are also described.