Input port routing circuit that performs output port filtering

• US 7,342,878 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2002
• Issued: 03/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Rider, Scot H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Chau
• Assistant Examiner(s): Juntima; Nittaya
• Application Number:
  US10/328,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20040120254A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,905 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers

Abstract

The filtering operations normally performed at the output port side of an Infiniband (or similar protocol) routing switch are performed in parallel at the input side to prevent data packets from being placed on a queue from which they would ordinarily ultimately be discarded, thus removing “bad” packets that would normally have a negative impact on the bandwidth of the switch. Bad data packets thus do not consume space in a central queue nor bandwidth in a crossbar switch.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium having computer instructions executed by a computer to perform a method, wherein the method comprising the steps of:

determining, at an input port, the presence of an input port packet transmission protocol violation from packet header information for an information packet;

selecting said input port packet transmission protocol violation specific to said input port using at least one selector;

determining, only at said input port, the presence of an output port packet transmission protocol violation from the packet header information; and

preventing transmission of said packet to a queue of packets for transmission to at least one output port due to said input port packet transmission protocol violation or to said output port packet transmission protocol violation.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1 in which said transmission is prevented from reaching a plurality of output ports.