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Issuing requests to a fabric

US8775700B2 · kind B2 · utility

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30References

10Claims

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy · Sunnyvale, US
Mikal C. Hunsaker · Cameron Park, US
Michael T. Klinglesmith · Portland, US
Blaise Fanning · Folsom, US
Eran Tamari · Ramat Gan, IL
Joseph Murray · Scottsdale, US
Kar Leong Wong · Folsom, US
Robert P. Adler · Chicago, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 29, 2011
Grant date	Jul 8, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 10, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F15/7864
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes determining whether producer-consumer ordering rules have been met for a first transaction to be sent from a source agent to a target agent via a fabric, and if so a first request for the first transaction is sent from the source agent to the fabric in a first clock cycle. Then a second request can be sent from the source agent to the fabric for a second transaction in a pipelined manner. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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