Invention Grant
- Patent Title: I/O agent
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Application No.: US17648071Application Date: 2022-01-14
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Publication No.: US11550716B2Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- 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
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Mark D. Seegers; Dean M. Munyon
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; 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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220318136A1 I/O Agent Public/Granted day:2022-10-06
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