Hardware resource sharing within peripheral component interconnect express (PCIE) environment capable of assigning hardware resource dynamically
US10417156B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 17, 2017 |
| Grant date | Sep 17, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 9, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F13/4282
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A switching fabric includes a plurality of buses and a plurality of switching devices. A method for operating the switching fabric includes assigning the plurality of buses to be a plurality of peripheral buses and a plurality of computer buses according to a predetermined configuration, establishing electrical connections between the plurality of computer buses and the plurality of peripheral buses according to the predetermined configuration, and when a first computer is coupled to a first computer bus of the plurality of computer buses and performs a peripheral component interconnect express scan function, transmitting types and/or utilization information of a plurality of first peripheral devices corresponding to the first computer bus to the first computer according to the predetermined configuration to make the first computer reserve memory segments required by the plurality of first peripheral devices.
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