Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Joel Leon Lach

David H Bassett

Greg L Dykema

Gregory Lee Dykema

Michael T Longenbach

Examples include interrupting a processing resource based on a last interrupt request indicator and a work acknowledgement. Some examples include completion of work associated with a plurality of work units, storage of a last interrupt request indicator to specify a last completed work unit that includes a request to interrupt a processing resource, comparison of work unit information associated with the last interrupt request indicator with work unit information associated with a work acknowledgement generated by the processing resource, and interrupting the processing resource when the comparison indicates that the processing resource has not processed the completed work unit indicated by the last interrupt request indicator.

Interrupt based on a last interrupt request indicator and a work acknowledgement

A first node includes a DMA engine for transferring data specified by a sequence of control blocks to a second node. When a control block does not require synchronization between memories, the DMA engine sends an end of transfer (EOT) message after the last datum, increments an EOT counter, and processes the next control block. When a control block requires synchronization and the EOT counter is at zero, the DMA engine sends an EOT with a flag after the last datum, increments the EOT counter, and waits for the EOT counter to return to zero before processing the next control block. A memory controller at the second node detects the EOT with or without a flag and generates an EOT acknowledgement with or without a flag. When a link interface at the second node detects the EOT acknowledgement with a flag, it sends an interrupt to a local processor complex.

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Joel Leon Lach