公开(公告)号：US20180191570A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-05

申请号：US15129386

申请日：2015-09-26

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Brent R. ROTHERMEL ,  Mark S. BIRRITTELLA

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/841

CPC classification number: H04L41/0816 ,  H04L41/0893 ,  H04L47/283 ,  H04L49/557 ,  H04L49/70

Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to dynamically changing a width of a network link without inactivating the network link. Provided are component communicatively coupled via a network link configured to negotiate a new network link width and to initiate a soft recovery of the network link to implement the new negotiated link width.