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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Nachiappan Chidambaram Nachiappan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew R. Johnson, Newark, CA (US);
Vinodh R. Cuppu, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for controlling bandwidth through shared transaction limits are described. An apparatus includes at least a plurality of agents, a plurality of transaction-limit (T-Limit) nodes, a T-Limit manager, and one or more endpoints. The T-Limit manager creates a plurality of credits for the plurality of agents to send transactions to a given endpoint. Then, the T-Limit manager partitions the credits into N+1 portions for N agents, wherein the extra N+1 portion is a shared pool for use by agents when they run out of their private credits. The T-Limit manager assigns a separate private portion of the N portions to the N agents for use by only the corresponding agent. When an agent runs out of private credits, the agent's T-Limit node sends a request to the T-Limit manager for credits from the shared pool.