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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2002
Chia Y. Wu, Newark, CA (US);
John D. Acton, Danville, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Each node's memory controller may be configured to send and receive messages on a dedicated memory-to-memory interconnect according to the communication protocol and to responsively perform memory accesses in a local memory. The type of message sent on the interconnect may depend on which memory region is targeted by a memory access request local to the sending node. If certain regions are targeted locally, a memory controller may delay performance of a local memory access until the memory access has been performed remotely. Remote nodes may confirm performance of the remote memory accesses via the memory-to-memory interconnect.