Hewlett-packard Company

Helen Nusbaum

William R Bryg

Craig R Frink

Michael L Ziegler

Stephen G Burger

Larry N McMahan

Robert J Brooks

Brendan A Voge

K Monroe Bridges

Eric W Hamilton

A split transaction bus system that accommodates atomic operations without locking the bus and without the possibility of deadlock during the atomic operations. The bus system may be used in a computer system that includes a bus, component modules that send transactions to each other on the bus, and a bus controller that limits the types of transactions that can be sent on the bus at any given time. When one module is performing an atomic operation, the bus controller limits transactions to those that do not change the memory image that existed when the atomic operation was commenced. The bus controller, however, permits responses or returns of data, assuming the response or return does not alter the current value of data.

Atomic operation control scheme

A computing system includes a main memory and an input/output adapter. The input/output adapter accesses a translation map. The translation map maps input/output page numbers to memory address page numbers. Entries to the translation map are generated so that each entry includes an address of a data page in the main memory and transaction configuration information. The transaction configuration information is utilized by the input/output adapter during data transactions to and from the data page.

Access hints for input/output address translation mechanisms

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