Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Efficient peer-to-peer communication support in SoC fabrics
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Application No.: US13810033Application Date: 2012-01-13
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Publication No.: US09755997B2Publication Date: 2017-09-05
- Inventor: Bin Li , Li Zhao , Ravishankar Iyer , Rameshkumar G. Illikkal
- Applicant: Bin Li , Li Zhao , Ravishankar Iyer , Rameshkumar G. Illikkal
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Law Office of R. Alan Burnett, P.S.
- International Application: PCT/US2012/021187 WO 20120113
- International Announcement: WO2013/105967 WO 20130718
- Main IPC: H04L12/58
- IPC: H04L12/58 ; G06F13/40 ; H04L12/933

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for efficient peer-to-peer communication support in interconnect fabrics. Network interfaces associated with agents are implemented to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions between agents in a manner that ensures data accesses correspond to the most recent update for each agent. This is implemented, in part, via use of non-posted “dummy writes” that are sent from an agent when the destination between write transactions originating from the agent changes. The dummy writes ensure that data corresponding to previous writes reach their destination prior to subsequent write and read transactions, thus ordering the peer-to-peer transactions without requiring the use of a centralized transaction ordering entity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130185370A1 EFFICIENT PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION SUPPORT IN SOC FABRICS Public/Granted day:2013-07-18
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