Invention Publication
- Patent Title: I/O Agent
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Application No.: US18151834Application Date: 2023-01-09
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Publication No.: US20230161700A1Publication Date: 2023-05-25
- Inventor: Gaurav Garg , Sagi Lahav , Lital Levy - Rubin , Gerard Williams, III , Samer Nassar , Per H. Hammarlund , Harshavardhan Kaushikkar , Srinivasa Rangan Sridharan , Jeff Gonion , James Vash
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Main IPC: G06F12/06
- IPC: G06F12/06 ; G06F12/0891 ; G06F9/46 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F12/0831

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed relating to an I/O agent circuit of a computer system. The I/O agent circuit may receive, from a peripheral component, a set of transaction requests to perform a set of read transactions that are directed to one or more of a plurality of cache lines. The I/O agent circuit may issue, to a first memory controller circuit configured to manage access to a first one of the plurality of cache lines, a request for exclusive read ownership of the first cache line such that data of the first cache line is not cached outside of the memory and the I/O agent circuit in a valid state. The I/O agent circuit may receive exclusive read ownership of the first cache line, including receiving the data of the first cache line. The I/O agent circuit may then perform the set of read transactions with respect to the data.
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