A METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING A DYNAMIC SCHEDULING OF MEMORY ACCESSES TO A DATA MEMORY

摘要

The present invention provides a network device (1) within a data network for providing a dynamic scheduling of memory accesses to a data memory (4) connected to said network device (1), wherein said data memory (4) is partitioned into data memory slices of a slice size corresponding to a minimum possible data packet size of a data packet, DP, transported in said data network, wherein a load balancer (5) of said network device (1) is adapted to write ingress data packets into data memory slices of said data memory (4) in write operations such that the ingress data packets, DP, are evenly distributed in the write operations between the different data memory slices of said data memory (4), wherein said load balancer (5) is adapted to read egress data packets to be transmitted from the data memory slices of said data memory (4) in read operations such that a misbalance between read operations from different data memory slices of said data memory (4) is minimized.