TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFLIGHT PACKET COUNT LIMITING IN A QUEUE MANAGER ENVIRONMENT

Technologies for inflight packet count limiting include a network device. The network device is to receive a packet from a producer application. The packet is configured to be enqueued into a packet queue as a queue element to be consumed by a consumer application. The network device is also to increment, in response to receipt of the packet, an inflight count variable, determine whether a value of the inflight count variable satisfies an inflight count limit, and enqueue, in response to a determination that the value of the inflight count variable satisfies the inflight count limit, the packet.