公开(公告)号：US20190386934A1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-19

申请号：US16554064

申请日：2019-08-28

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Ilango Ganga ,  Alain Gravel ,  Thomas Lovett ,  Radia Perlman ,  Greg Regnier ,  Anil Vasudevan ,  Hugh Wilkinson

IPC: H04L12/939 ,  H04L12/947 ,  H04L1/16

Abstract: This disclosure describes enhancements to Ethernet for use in higher performance applications like Storage, HPC, and Ethernet based fabric interconnects. This disclosure provides various mechanisms for lossless fabric enhancements with error-detection and retransmissions to improve link reliability, frame pre-emption to allow higher priority traffic over lower priority traffic, virtual channel support for deadlock avoidance by enhancing Class of service functionality defined in IEEE 802.1Q, a new header format for efficient forwarding/routing in the fabric interconnect and header CRC for reliable cut-through forwarding in the fabric interconnect. The enhancements described herein, when added to standard and/or proprietary Ethernet protocols, broadens the applicability of Ethernet to newer usage models and fabric interconnects that are currently served by alternate fabric technologies like Infiniband, Fibre Channel and/or other proprietary technologies, etc.

公开(公告)号：US10404625B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-03

申请号：US14496667

申请日：2014-09-25

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Ilango Ganga ,  Alain Gravel ,  Thomas Lovett ,  Radia Perlman ,  Greg Regnier ,  Anil Vasudevan ,  Hugh Wilkinson

IPC: H04L12/939 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L12/947 ,  H04L12/861

Abstract: This disclosure describes enhancements to Ethernet for use in higher performance applications like Storage, HPC, and Ethernet based fabric interconnects. This disclosure provides various mechanisms for lossless fabric enhancements with error-detection and retransmissions to improve link reliability, frame pre-emption to allow higher priority traffic over lower priority traffic, virtual channel support for deadlock avoidance by enhancing Class of service functionality defined in IEEE 802.1Q, a new header format for efficient forwarding/routing in the fabric interconnect and header CRC for reliable cut-through forwarding in the fabric interconnect. The enhancements described herein, when added to standard and/or proprietary Ethernet protocols, broadens the applicability of Ethernet to newer usage models and fabric interconnects that are currently served by alternate fabric technologies like Infiniband, Fiber Channel and/or other proprietary technologies, etc.

公开(公告)号：US09674098B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-06

申请号：US14313740

申请日：2014-06-24

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Ilango Ganga ,  Alain Gravel ,  Radia Perlman ,  Greg Regnier ,  Anil Vasudevan ,  Hugh Wilkinson ,  Thomas D. Lovett

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L12/851

CPC classification number: H04L47/2441 ,  Y02D30/30 ,  Y02D30/32

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for enabling class-based credit flow control for a network node in communication with a link partner using an Ethernet communications protocol. The method includes receiving a control frame from the link partner. The control frame includes at least one field for specifying credit for at least one traffic class and the credit is based on available space in a receive buffer associated with the at least one traffic class. The method further includes sending data packets to the link partner based on the credit, the data packets associated with the at least one traffic class.

公开(公告)号：US11063884B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-13

申请号：US16554064

申请日：2019-08-28

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Ilango Ganga ,  Alain Gravel ,  Thomas Lovett ,  Radia Perlman ,  Greg Regnier ,  Anil Vasudevan ,  Hugh Wilkinson

IPC: H04L12/939 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L12/947 ,  H04L12/861

Abstract: This disclosure describes enhancements to Ethernet for use in higher performance applications like Storage, HPC, and Ethernet based fabric interconnects. This disclosure provides various mechanisms for lossless fabric enhancements with error-detection and retransmissions to improve link reliability, frame pre-emption to allow higher priority traffic over lower priority traffic, virtual channel support for deadlock avoidance by enhancing Class of service functionality defined in IEEE 802.1Q, a new header format for efficient forwarding/routing in the fabric interconnect and header CRC for reliable cut-through forwarding in the fabric interconnect. The enhancements described herein, when added to standard and/or proprietary Ethernet protocols, broadens the applicability of Ethernet to newer usage models and fabric interconnects that are currently served by alternate fabric technologies like Infiniband, Fibre Channel and/or other proprietary technologies, etc.

公开(公告)号：US10205667B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-12

申请号：US15614455

申请日：2017-06-05

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Ilango Ganga ,  Alain Gravel ,  Thomas D. Lovett ,  Radia Perlman ,  Greg Regnier ,  Anil Vasudevan ,  Hugh Wilkinson

IPC: H04L12/851

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for enabling class-based credit flow control for a network node in communication with a link partner using an Ethernet communications protocol. The method includes receiving a control frame from the link partner. The control frame includes at least one field for specifying credit for at least one traffic class and the credit is based on available space in a receive buffer associated with the at least one traffic class. The method further includes sending data packets to the link partner based on the credit, the data packets associated with the at least one traffic class.