公开(公告)号：US20220179818A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：US17557837

申请日：2021-12-21

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Mahesh Natu

IPC: G06F13/42 ,  H04L12/40

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for operating a port manager to detect a first link condition or a second link condition of a circuitry. Under the first link condition, a first link between a downstream port of the circuitry and an upstream port of a switch is compatible to a first protocol, and a second link between a downstream port of the switch and an upstream port of a device is compatible to the second protocol. Under the second link condition, the first link exists and is compatible to the first protocol, while there is no second link being compatible to the second protocol. The port manager is to operate the downstream port of the circuitry according to the second protocol on detection of the first link condition, or according to the first protocol on detection of the second link condition. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

公开(公告)号：US10169268B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-01

申请号：US15270151

申请日：2016-09-20

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Mahesh Natu ,  Thanunathan Rangarajan ,  Gautam Doshi ,  Shamanna M. Datta ,  Baskaran Ganesan ,  Mohan J. Kumar ,  Rajesh S. Parthasarathy ,  Frank Binns ,  Rajesh Nagaraja Murthy ,  Robert C. Swanson

IPC: G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G11C7/10 ,  G11C11/406 ,  G06F13/24 ,  G06F9/38

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor that has an on-die storage such as a static random access memory to store an architectural state of one or more threads that are swapped out of architectural state storage of the processor on entry to a system management mode (SMM). In this way communication of this state information to a system management memory can be avoided, reducing latency associated with entry into SMM. Embodiments may also enable the processor to update a status of executing agents that are either in a long instruction flow or in a system management interrupt (SMI) blocked state, in order to provide an indication to agents inside the SMM. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US20180143923A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-24

申请号：US15873089

申请日：2018-01-17

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Mahesh Natu ,  Thanunathan Rangarajan ,  Gautam Doshi ,  Shamanna M. Datta ,  Baskaran Ganesan ,  Mohan J. Kumar ,  Rajesh S. Parthasarathy ,  Frank Binns ,  Rajesh Nagaraja Murthy ,  Robert C. Swanson

IPC: G06F13/24 ,  G11C11/406 ,  G11C7/10 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G06F9/38

CPC classification number: G06F13/24 ,  G06F9/30101 ,  G06F9/3017 ,  G06F9/30189 ,  G06F9/3851 ,  G06F9/461 ,  G11C7/1072 ,  G11C11/40615

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor that has an on-die storage such as a static random access memory to store an architectural state of one or more threads that are swapped out of architectural state storage of the processor on entry to a system management mode (SMM). In this way communication of this state information to a system management memory can be avoided, reducing latency associated with entry into SMM. Embodiments may also enable the processor to update a status of executing agents that are either in a long instruction flow or in a system management interrupt (SMI) blocked state, in order to provide an indication to agents inside the SMM. Other embodiments are described and claimed.