Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Interrupt queuing in a media controller architecture
- Patent Title (中): 在媒体控制器架构中中断排队
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Application No.: US12952206Application Date: 2010-11-23
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Publication No.: US08868809B2Publication Date: 2014-10-21
- Inventor: David R. Noeldner , Michael Bratvold , Paul H. Smith
- Applicant: David R. Noeldner , Michael Bratvold , Paul H. Smith
- Applicant Address: US CA Milpitas
- Assignee: LSI Corporation
- Current Assignee: LSI Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Milpitas
- Agency: Smith Risley Tempel Santos LLC
- Agent Daniel J. Santos
- Main IPC: G06F13/24
- IPC: G06F13/24 ; G06F13/36 ; G06F12/00 ; G06F3/00 ; G06F13/28

Abstract:
Described embodiments provide a media controller for servicing contexts corresponding to data transfer requests from host devices. The media controller includes a context generator for generating contexts corresponding to the data transfer requests and a buffer for storing one or more context pointers, each pointer corresponding to a context and an action by a system module associated with the context. A context processor is configured to complete a context when the action by a media controller module associated with the context is complete, remove each pointer from the buffer associated with the completed context, and determine whether an interrupt corresponds to the completed context and removed pointer. If no interrupt corresponds to the completed context, the completed context is cleared. If an interrupt corresponds to the completed context, the interrupt is provided to a master processor and a completed context recycler for recycling the completed context pointer to the context generator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110131357A1 Interrupt Queuing in a Media Controller Architecture Public/Granted day:2011-06-02
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