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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1999
Ravi Kumar Arimilli, Austin, TX (US);
Vicente Enrique Chung, Austin, TX (US);
Warren Edward Maule, Cedar Park, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for transmitting ordered packets on a bus within a data processing system is disclosed. A data processing system includes a bus connected between a bus master and a bus slave. The bus master consecutively issues multiple packets, such as command packets, to the bus slave on the bus. The packets include order sensitive packets and non-order sensitive packets. In response to a temporary inability of the bus slave to process a particular one of the order sensitive packets due to a lack of resources, the bus slave keeps retrying the particular order sensitive packet. When resources become available, the bus slave processes the retried order sensitive packets in order while allowing the retried non-order sensitive packets to be processed in any order.
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