Intel Corporation

David A Smiley

Balaji Parthasarathy

Nitin N Garegrat

Naveen Lakkakula

Weiqiang Ma

Justin B Diether

A processing engine implementing job arbitration with ordering status is disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes receiving, by a job assigner communicably coupled to a plurality of processors, availability status from a plurality of job rings, availability status from the plurality of processors, and job entry completion status from an order manager, identifying, based on the received job entry completion status, a set of job rings from the plurality of job rings that do not exceed threshold conditions maintained by the job assigner, selecting, from the identified set of job rings, a job ring from which to pull a job entry for assignment, wherein the selecting is based on the received availability status of the plurality of job rings, and selecting, based on the received availability status of the plurality of processors, a processor to receive the assignment of the job entry for processing.

Processing engine implementing job arbitration with ordering status

A method and apparatus for balancing memory access latency and bandwidth is generally described. In accordance with one example embodiment of the invention, a method comprising determining at least one characteristic of a memory request, and selectively leaving an accessed memory page open after a memory access based, at least in part, on the at least one characteristic for the memory request, to balance memory access latency and bandwidth of a subsequent memory request(s).

Growing community of inventors

Chandler, AZ, United States of America

David A Smiley