| 摘要 |
Methods and system architectures are disclosed for controlling the processing of data packets in one or more routers. Each router stores received data packets in one or more ingress data queues. In a first aspect of the disclosure, packets held in an ingress data queue are processed by the router at a dynamically adjusted packet flow rate. The ingress data queue has a data queue head structure, including a packets-to-be-processed field. The packets-to-be-processed field has a value indicating a selected number of packets to be processed from the ingress data queue in a given processing interval. In this manner, the packet flow rate of the ingress data queue is adjusted by varying the value of the packets-to-be-processed field, based on current operating conditions (e.g., current processor or memory utilization) of the router. |
