Intel Corporation

Vinit Mathew Abraham

Yen-Cheng Liu

Siva Prasad Gadey

Robert G Blankenship

Sailesh Kumar

Raghunandan Makaram

Swadesh Choudhary

Eswaramoorthi Nallusamy

Ramadass Nagarajan

Ravi L Sahita

Vedvyas Shanbhogue

Kirk S Yap

Jeremy J Shrall

Utkarsh Y Kakaiya

Abhishek Basak

Rupin H Vakharwala

Jeffrey D Chamberlain

Anand K Enamandram

Erik Hallnor

Tanmoy Kar

Lee Albion

Filip Schmole

Ezra N Harrington

Soumya S Eachempati

A first plurality of integrated circuit blocks of a first chip are connected to a second plurality of integrated circuit blocks of a second chip. A cluster remapping table is provided on the second chip and is to be programmed to identify a desired asymmetric topology of the connections between the first plurality of integrated circuit blocks and the second plurality of integrated circuit blocks. Logic is to discover the actual topology of the connections between the first plurality of integrated circuit blocks and the second plurality of integrated circuit blocks and determine whether the actual topology matches the desired topology as described in the cluster remapping table.

Cluster identifier remapping for asymmetric topologies

Techniques for real-time updating of encryption keys are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, an encrypted link is established between a local and remote processor over a point-to-point interconnect. The encrypted link is operated for some time until the encryption key should be updated. The local processor sends a key update message to the remote processor notifying the remote processor of the change. The remote processor prepares for the change and sends a key update confirmation message to the local processor. The local processor then sends a key switch message to the remote processor. The local processor pauses transmission of encrypted message while the remote processor completes use of the encrypted message. After a pause, the local processor continues sending encrypted messages with the updated encryption key.

Technologies for real-time updating of encryption keys

Examples described herein relate to programming a memory rule for a home agent, wherein the programming a memory rule for a home agent comprises: receiving at least one memory rule programming and based on a cluster associated with the home agent, configuring a memory rule register using a memory rule programming from among the at least one memory rule programming. In some examples, receiving at least one memory rule programming includes receiving a first memory rule programming and receiving a second memory rule programming. In some examples, a mask is applied to reject the first memory rule programming; and applying the mask to accept the second memory rule programming and program the memory rule for the home agent.

Technologies for configuration of memory ranges

Apparatus and method for role-based register protection. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: one or more processor cores to execute instructions and process data, the one or more processor cores to execute one or more security instructions to protect a virtual machine or trusted application from a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or operating system (OS); an interconnect fabric to couple the one or more processor cores to a device; and security hardware logic to determine whether to allow a read or write transaction directed to a protected register to proceed over the interconnect fabric, the security hardware logic to evaluate one or more security attributes associated with an initiator of the transaction to make the determination.

Apparatus and method for role-based register protection for TDX-IO

An interface for coupling an agent to a fabric supports a set of coherent interconnect protocols and includes a global channel to communicate control signals to support the interface, a request channel to communicate messages associated with requests to other agents on the fabric, a response channel to communicate responses to other agents on the fabric, and a data channel to couple to communicate messages associated with data transfers to other agents on the fabric, where the data transfers include payload data.

Flexible on-die fabric interface

Examples described herein relate to processor circuitry to issue a cache coherence message to a central processing unit (CPU) cluster by selection of a target cluster and issuance of the request to the target cluster, wherein the target cluster comprises the cluster or the target cluster is directly connected to the cluster. In some examples, the selected target cluster is associated with a minimum number of die boundary traversals. In some examples, the processor circuitry is to read an address range for the cluster to identify the target cluster using a single range check over memory regions including local and remote clusters. In some examples, issuance of the cache coherence message to a cluster is to cause the cache coherence message to traverse one or more die interconnections to reach the target cluster.

Link affinitization to reduce transfer latency

Described is an apparatus which comprises: an Intellectual Property (IP) block; control logic operable to send a first command to the IP block to cause the first IP block to enter a first power state from a second power state; and a communicating fabric coupled to the IP block and to the control logic, the communicating fabric to send multiple packets with a first header from the IP block to the control logic after the first command is processed by the IP block, wherein the multiple packets are associated with multiple registers which are identified as registers whose contents are to be saved.

Apparatus and method for saving and restoring data for power saving in a processor

In an example, a shared uncore memory fabric of a system-on-a-chip (SoC) is configured to provide real-time power management. The SoC may include a power management agent to inform the shared fabric that the processing cores and peripherals will be idle for a time, and to negotiate a power-saving state. The uncore fabric may also include a local power manager that detects when no access requests have been received for a time, such as when cores are operating from cache. The shared fabric may then unilaterally enter a power-saving state, and remain in that state until an access request is received. In the power-saving state, power and/or clocks are gated, and the fabric's state is stored in retention cells. When a new access request is received, an ungated controller may handle preliminary processing while the local power manager restores the state and powers up the shared fabric.

Power management in an uncore fabric

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Vinit Mathew Abraham