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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rodney A DeKoning, Augusta, KS (US);
Dennis E. Gates, Wichita, KS (US);
Keith W. Holt, Wichita, KS (US);
John R. Kloeppner, Buhler, KS (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/324 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/324 ;
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention provides a storage system controller ( ) having a main processor ( ), a memory ( ) and a device interface ( ) adapted to interface with a peripheral component ( ). The controller further includes an interrupt management scoreboard ( ) adapted to receive a plurality of writes from the peripheral component(s) prior to interrupting the main processor. The main processor identifies a group of tasks to be executed, and sets up the scoreboard to await the completion of the tasks before interrupting the main processor.