Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Resource management for peripheral component interconnect-express domains
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Application No.: US14315099Application Date: 2014-06-25
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Publication No.: US09672167B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Norbert Egi , Robert Lasater , Thomas Boyle , John Peters , Guangyu Shi
- Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Plano
- Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Plano
- Agency: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
- Main IPC: G06F13/14
- IPC: G06F13/14 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F13/40 ; G06F9/50 ; H04L12/915

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a solution for managing inter-domain resource allocation in a Peripheral Component Interconnect-Express (PCIe) network. One processor among a plurality of link processors is elected as a management processor. The management processor obtains information about available resources of PCIe network. When a resource request from a request processor is received, the management processor allocates a resource of the available resources to the requesting processor. The management processor instructs one or more link processors to program one or more inter-domain NTBs through which the traffic between the allocated resource and the requesting processor is going to flow according to the memory address information of the allocated resource, to allow cross-domain resource access between the requesting processor and the allocated resource.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150026385A1 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT-EXPRESS DOMAINS Public/Granted day:2015-01-22
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