Aggregate data processing system having multiple overlapping synthetic computers
    1.
    发明授权
    Aggregate data processing system having multiple overlapping synthetic computers 有权
    具有多个重叠合成计算机的综合数据处理系统

    公开(公告)号:US08370595B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-02-05

    申请号:US12643800

    申请日:2009-12-21

    IPC分类号: G06F12/00

    摘要: A first SMP computer has first and second processing units and a first system memory pool, a second SMP computer has third and fourth processing units and a second system memory pool, and a third SMP computer has at least fifth and sixth processing units and third, fourth and fifth system memory pools. The fourth system memory pool is inaccessible to the third, fourth and sixth processing units and accessible to at least the second and fifth processing units, and the fifth system memory pool is inaccessible to the first, second and sixth processing units and accessible to at least the fourth and fifth processing units. A first interconnect couples the second processing unit for load-store coherent, ordered access to the fourth system memory pool, and a second interconnect couples the fourth processing unit for load-store coherent, ordered access to the fifth system memory pool.

    摘要翻译: 第一SMP计算机具有第一和第二处理单元和第一系统存储器池,第二SMP计算机具有第三和第四处理单元和第二系统存储器池,并且第三SMP计算机具有至少第五和第六处理单元,第三SMP计算机具有至少第五和第六处理单元, 第四和第五系统内存池。 第四系统存储器池对于第三,第四和第六处理单元是不可访问的,并且可访问至少第二和第五处理单元,并且第五系统存储器池对于第一,第二和第六处理单元是不可访问的,并且至少可访问 第四和第五处理单元。 第一互连耦合第二处理单元,用于对第四系统存储池进行加载存储相关的有序访问,并且第二互连耦合第四处理单元,用于加载存储相关的有序访问到第五系统存储池。

    AGGREGATE DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE OVERLAPPING SYNTHETIC COMPUTERS
    2.
    发明申请
    AGGREGATE DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE OVERLAPPING SYNTHETIC COMPUTERS 有权
    具有多重叠加合成计算机的综合数据处理系统

    公开(公告)号:US20120324189A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-12-20

    申请号:US13599856

    申请日:2012-08-30

    IPC分类号: G06F12/14

    摘要: A first SMP computer has first and second processing units and a first system memory pool, a second SMP computer has third and fourth processing units and a second system memory pool, and a third SMP computer has at least fifth and sixth processing units and third, fourth and fifth system memory pools. The fourth system memory pool is inaccessible to the third, fourth and sixth processing units and accessible to at least the second and fifth processing units, and the fifth system memory pool is inaccessible to the first, second and sixth processing units and accessible to at least the fourth and fifth processing units. A first interconnect couples the second processing unit for load-store coherent, ordered access to the fourth system memory pool, and a second interconnect couples the fourth processing unit for load-store coherent, ordered access to the fifth system memory pool.

    摘要翻译: 第一SMP计算机具有第一和第二处理单元和第一系统存储器池,第二SMP计算机具有第三和第四处理单元和第二系统存储器池,并且第三SMP计算机具有至少第五和第六处理单元,第三SMP计算机具有至少第五和第六处理单元, 第四和第五系统内存池。 第四系统存储器池对于第三,第四和第六处理单元是不可访问的,并且可访问至少第二和第五处理单元,并且第五系统存储器池对于第一,第二和第六处理单元是不可访问的,并且至少可访问 第四和第五处理单元。 第一互连耦合第二处理单元,用于对第四系统存储池进行加载存储相关的有序访问,并且第二互连耦合第四处理单元,用于加载存储相关的有序访问到第五系统存储池。

    Aggregate Data Processing System Having Multiple Overlapping Synthetic Computers
    3.
    发明申请
    Aggregate Data Processing System Having Multiple Overlapping Synthetic Computers 有权
    具有多重重合成计算机的综合数据处理系统

    公开(公告)号:US20110153943A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-06-23

    申请号:US12643800

    申请日:2009-12-21

    IPC分类号: G06F12/00 G06F12/14 G06F12/08

    摘要: A first SMP computer has first and second processing units and a first system memory pool, a second SMP computer has third and fourth processing units and a second system memory pool, and a third SMP computer has at least fifth and sixth processing units and third, fourth and fifth system memory pools. The fourth system memory pool is inaccessible to the third, fourth and sixth processing units and accessible to at least the second and fifth processing units, and the fifth system memory pool is inaccessible to the first, second and sixth processing units and accessible to at least the fourth and fifth processing units. A first interconnect couples the second processing unit for load-store coherent, ordered access to the fourth system memory pool, and a second interconnect couples the fourth processing unit for load-store coherent, ordered access to the fifth system memory pool.

    摘要翻译: 第一SMP计算机具有第一和第二处理单元和第一系统存储器池,第二SMP计算机具有第三和第四处理单元和第二系统存储器池,并且第三SMP计算机具有至少第五和第六处理单元,第三SMP计算机具有至少第五和第六处理单元, 第四和第五系统内存池。 第四系统存储器池对于第三,第四和第六处理单元是不可访问的,并且可访问至少第二和第五处理单元,并且第五系统存储器池对于第一,第二和第六处理单元是不可访问的,并且至少可访问 第四和第五处理单元。 第一互连耦合第二处理单元,用于对第四系统存储池进行加载存储相关的有序访问,并且第二互连耦合第四处理单元,用于加载存储相关的有序访问到第五系统存储池。

    Heterogeneous Processing Elements
    4.
    发明申请
    Heterogeneous Processing Elements 有权
    异构处理元件

    公开(公告)号:US20090198971A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-08-06

    申请号:US12024220

    申请日:2008-02-01

    IPC分类号: G06F9/30

    CPC分类号: G06F13/12

    摘要: A heterogeneous processing element model is provided where I/O devices look and act like processors. In order to be treated like a processor, an I/O processing element, or other special purpose processing element, must follow some rules and have some characteristics of a processor, such as address translation, security, interrupt handling, and exception processing, for example. The heterogeneous processing element model puts special purpose processing elements on the same playing field as processors, from a programming perspective, operating system perspective, power perspective, as the processors. The operating system can get work to a security engine, for example, in the same way it does to a processor.

    摘要翻译: 提供异构处理元件模型,其中I / O设备看起来像处理器一样操作。 为了像处理器一样处理I / O处理元件或其他专用处理元件,必须遵循一些规则并具有处理器的某些特性,例如地址转换,安全性,中断处理和异常处理,用于 例。 异构处理元素模型将特殊处理元素放在与处理器相同的竞争环境中,从编程角度,操作系统的角度,功率视角,作为处理器。 操作系统可以使用安全引擎,例如,与处理器相同。

    Binding a process to a special purpose processing element having characteristics of a processor
    5.
    发明授权
    Binding a process to a special purpose processing element having characteristics of a processor 有权
    将过程绑定到具有处理器特征的专用处理元件

    公开(公告)号:US08893126B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-11-18

    申请号:US12024220

    申请日:2008-02-01

    IPC分类号: G06F9/00 G06F13/12

    CPC分类号: G06F13/12

    摘要: A heterogeneous processing element model is provided where I/O devices look and act like processors. In order to be treated like a processor, an I/O processing element, or other special purpose processing element, must follow some rules and have some characteristics of a processor, such as address translation, security, interrupt handling, and exception processing, for example. The heterogeneous processing element model puts special purpose processing elements on the same playing field as processors, from a programming perspective, operating system perspective, and power perspective. The operating system can get work to a security engine, for example, in the same way it does to a processor.

    摘要翻译: 提供异构处理元件模型,其中I / O设备看起来像处理器一样操作。 为了像处理器一样处理I / O处理元件或其他专用处理元件,必须遵循一些规则并具有处理器的某些特性,例如地址转换,安全性,中断处理和异常处理,用于 例。 异构处理元素模型将特殊处理元素与编程角度,操作系统角度和功能视角相结合,将处理器与处理器相同。 操作系统可以使用安全引擎,例如,与处理器相同。

    Processor, data processing system and method supporting a shared global coherency state
    6.
    发明授权
    Processor, data processing system and method supporting a shared global coherency state 失效
    处理器,数据处理系统和支持共享全局一致性状态的方法

    公开(公告)号:US08495308B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-07-23

    申请号:US11539694

    申请日:2006-10-09

    IPC分类号: G06F12/00

    CPC分类号: G06F12/0831 G06F12/0817

    摘要: A multiprocessor data processing system includes at least first and second coherency domains, where the first coherency domain includes a system memory and a cache memory. According to a method of data processing, a cache line is buffered in a data array of the cache memory and a state field in a cache directory of the cache memory is set to a coherency state to indicate that the cache line is valid in the data array, that the cache line is held in the cache memory non-exclusively, and that another cache in said second coherency domain may hold a copy of the cache line.

    摘要翻译: 多处理器数据处理系统至少包括第一和第二相干域,其中第一相干域包括系统存储器和高速缓冲存储器。 根据数据处理的方法,将高速缓存行缓冲在高速缓冲存储器的数据阵列中,高速缓冲存储器的高速缓存目录中的状态字段被设置为一致性状态,以指示高速缓存行在数据中是有效的 数组,高速缓存存储器行被非排他地保存在高速缓冲存储器中,并且所述第二相干域中的另一个高速缓冲存储器可以保存高速缓存行的副本。

    MEMORY COHERENCE DIRECTORY SUPPORTING REMOTELY SOURCED REQUESTS OF NODAL SCOPE
    7.
    发明申请
    MEMORY COHERENCE DIRECTORY SUPPORTING REMOTELY SOURCED REQUESTS OF NODAL SCOPE 失效
    记忆协调指导原则支持远程请求的NODAL范围

    公开(公告)号:US20110047352A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-02-24

    申请号:US12545246

    申请日:2009-08-21

    IPC分类号: G06F15/76 G06F9/02 G06F12/08

    CPC分类号: G06F12/0817

    摘要: A data processing system includes at least a first through third processing nodes coupled by an interconnect fabric. The first processing node includes a master, a plurality of snoopers capable of participating in interconnect operations, and a node interface that receives a request of the master and transmits the request of the master to the second processing unit with a nodal scope of transmission limited to the second processing node. The second processing node includes a node interface having a directory. The node interface of the second processing node permits the request to proceed with the nodal scope of transmission if the directory does not indicate that a target memory block of the request is cached other than in the second processing node and prevents the request from succeeding if the directory indicates that the target memory block of the request is cached other than in the second processing node.

    摘要翻译: 数据处理系统至少包括通过互连结构耦合的第一至第三处理节点。 第一处理节点包括主机,能够参与互连操作的多个侦听器,以及接收主机请求的节点接口,并将主机的请求传送到第二处理单元,传送范围限于 第二处理节点。 第二处理节点包括具有目录的节点接口。 第二处理节点的节点接口允许请求继续进行节点传输范围,如果该目录没有指示该请求的目标存储器块不是在第二处理节点中被缓存,并且如果该请求成功 目录指示除第二处理节点之外的请求的目标存储块被缓存。

    Virtual Barrier Synchronization Cache
    8.
    发明申请
    Virtual Barrier Synchronization Cache 失效
    虚拟障碍同步缓存

    公开(公告)号:US20100257317A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-10-07

    申请号:US12419364

    申请日:2009-04-07

    IPC分类号: G06F12/08 G06F12/00

    CPC分类号: G06F12/0811 G06F9/522

    摘要: A data processing system includes an interconnect fabric, a system memory coupled to the interconnect fabric and including a virtual barrier synchronization region allocated to storage of virtual barrier synchronization registers (VBSRs), and a plurality of processing units coupled to the interconnect fabric and operable to access the virtual barrier synchronization region of the system memory. Each of the plurality of processing units includes a processor core and a cache memory including a cache array that caches VBSR lines from the virtual barrier synchronization region of the system memory and a cache controller. The cache controller, responsive to a store request from the processor core to update a particular VBSR line, performs a non-blocking update of the cache array in each other of the plurality of processing units contemporaneously holding a copy of the particular VBSR line by transmitting a VBSR update command on the interconnect fabric.

    摘要翻译: 数据处理系统包括互连结构,耦合到互连结构并包括分配给虚拟屏障同步寄存器(VBSR)的存储的虚拟屏障同步区域的系统存储器,以及耦合到互连结构的多个处理单元, 访问系统内存的虚拟屏障同步区域。 多个处理单元中的每一个包括处理器核心和高速缓存存储器,其包括从系统存储器的虚拟屏障同步区域缓存VBSR行的缓存阵列和高速缓存控制器。 高速缓存控制器响应于来自处理器核心的存储请求来更新特定VBSR线路,通过发送来同时保存特定VBSR线路的副本的多个处理单元中的彼此之间的高速缓存阵列的非阻塞更新 互连结构上的VBSR更新命令。

    VICTIM CACHE LATERAL CASTOUT TARGETING

    公开(公告)号:US20100235577A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-09-16

    申请号:US12340511

    申请日:2008-12-19

    IPC分类号: G06F12/08 G06F12/00

    摘要: A data processing system includes a plurality of processing units coupled by an interconnect fabric. In response to a data request, a victim cache line is selected for castout from a first lower level cache of a first processing unit, and a target lower level cache of one of the plurality of processing units is selected based upon architectural proximity of the target lower level cache to a home system memory to which the address of the victim cache line is assigned. The first processing unit issues on the interconnect fabric a lateral castout (LCO) command that identifies the victim cache line to be castout from the first lower level cache and indicates that the target lower level cache is an intended destination. In response to a coherence response indicating success of the LCO command, the victim cache line is removed from the first lower level cache and held in the second lower level cache.

    摘要翻译: 数据处理系统包括通过互连结构耦合的多个处理单元。 响应于数据请求,从第一处理单元的第一较低级别高速缓存中选择牺牲缓存行来进行舍弃,并且基于目标的体系结构接近来选择多个处理单元之一的目标下级高速缓存 低级缓存到分配了受害者缓存行的地址的归属系统存储器。 所述第一处理单元在所述互连结构上发出侧向锁定(LCO)命令,所述侧向锁定(LCO)命令标识要从所述第一低级缓存中抛出的所述牺牲缓存线,并且指示所述目标低级缓存是预期目的地。 响应于指示LCO命令的成功的一致性响应,从第一低级缓存中删除受害者高速缓存行并保存在第二较低级高速缓存中。

    Data processing system, cache system and method for precisely forming an invalid coherency state indicating a broadcast scope
    10.
    发明授权
    Data processing system, cache system and method for precisely forming an invalid coherency state indicating a broadcast scope 失效
    数据处理系统,缓存系统和精确形成指示广播范围的无效一致性状态的方法

    公开(公告)号:US07512742B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-03-31

    申请号:US11333615

    申请日:2006-01-17

    IPC分类号: G06F12/00

    CPC分类号: G06F12/0831

    摘要: A cache coherent data processing system includes at least first and second coherency domains. In a first cache memory within the first coherency domain of the data processing system, a memory block is held in a storage location associated with an address tag and a coherency state field. A determination is made if a home system memory assigned an address associated with the memory block is within the first coherency domain. If not, the coherency state field is set to a coherency state that indicates that the address tag is valid, that the storage location does not contain valid data, the first coherency domain does not contain the home system memory, and that, following formation of the coherency state, the memory block is cached outside of the first coherency domain.

    摘要翻译: 缓存相干数据处理系统至少包括第一和第二相干域。 在数据处理系统的第一相关域内的第一高速缓存存储器中,存储块被保存在与地址标签和一致性状态字段相关联的存储位置中。 如果分配了与存储器块相关联的地址的归属系统存储器在第一相关域内,则确定。 如果不是,则将一致性状态字段设置为指示地址标签有效的一致性状态,即存储位置不包含有效数据,第一相干域不包含家庭系统存储器,并且在形成 一致性状态下,内存块被缓存在第一个相干域之外。