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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Scott Thomas Marcotte, Vestal, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
Abstract
Throughput of a request (e.g., a write request) is enhanced by allowing a receiver of the request to reply to the request before fully receiving the entire request. This reduces the delay between the time that the receiver completes a request and the time that the sender sees that the request is finished, and allows other requests to be forwarded prior to completion of the first request. The other requests that are forwarded, however, are processed in the order of receipt. Additionally, any errors that occur in a request after the reply is sent is forwarded to the sender of the request, even though the reply has previously been sent.