CPC H04L 47/12 (2013.01) [H04L 47/11 (2013.01); H04L 47/2425 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01); H04L 47/263 (2013.01); H04L 47/30 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. An electronic circuit, comprising circuitry to:
provide switching of network traffic between an ingress port and a plurality of egress ports, including assigning packets to one of a plurality of virtual lanes (VLs);
receive a quality of service (QoS) metric for a VL;
determine that congestion inhibits the VL from meeting the QoS metric;
calculate a quantitative flow throttle value for the VL; and
based on the determining, send a link layer congestion control message to a source host of packets for the VL, wherein the congestion control message is to realize the quantitative flow throttle value for the VL.
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