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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2018
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Shyamkumar Thiyagarajan Iyer, Austin, TX (US);
Yogesh Varma, Austin, TX (US);
Vadhiraj Sankaranarayanan, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
In one or more embodiments, one or more methods, processes, and/or systems may receive quality of service (QoS) configuration information associated with information storage and retrieval of a device coupled to an input/output memory management unit (IOMMU); may configure one or more registers of the memory controller with a range of addresses associated; may determine performance data based at least on one or more of an average number of transactions completed, an average number of cycles utilized by the transactions, and an average number of credits in a flow control between the memory controller and a first memory medium coupled to the memory controller; may determine that the performance data does not comply with the QoS configuration information; and if the performance data indicates that the information storage and retrieval of the device is congested, may remap the IOMMU to point to DMA buffers of a second memory medium.