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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1986
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
In this invention, when a service processor must request processing to all of n processors, it supplies a processing request to one of the n processors using a 1:1 inter-processor communication instruction. The processor receiving the request from the service processor then supplies a processing request to the remaining (n-1) processors using a 1:n inter-processor communication instruction. A bus control unit for controlling a system bus has a flag indicating whether or not the 1:1 (or 1:n) inter-processor communication instruction is sent. The service processor and other processors refer to the flag. When the flag is ON, issuance of the 1:1 (or 1:n) inter-processor communication instruction is inhibited to prevent contention between a plurality of requests.
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