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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tuong Trieu, Folsom, CA (US);
David D. Lent, Placerville, CA (US);
Zohar Bogin, Folsom, CA (US);
Ashish Gadagkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3362 ; G06F 1/314 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3362 ; G06F 1/314 ;
Abstract
An arbiter comprising logic circuitry configured to delay granting bus ownership to an agent X in response to receiving a first signal which indicates that a device coupled to the bus is not available to service transactions directed at the device over the bus. For instance, the device may be a bridge and the grant is delayed if an inbound pipe of the bridge is full. The arbiter may provide a borrowed grant to an outbound pipe of the device for performing a transaction on the bus while waiting for an inbound pipe of the device to become available.