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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2002
Eric G. Chambers, Austin, TX (US);
Tahsin Askar, Round Rock, TX (US);
Eric G. Chambers, Austin, TX (US);
Tahsin Askar, Round Rock, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing latency in a peripheral interface circuit of an I/O node of a computer system. The apparatus includes a buffer coupled to a control unit. The buffer may be configured to receive data on a first bus and the control unit may be configured to generate a first command type in response to receiving a first quantity of data having invalid bytes within the buffer. The control unit may be further configured to generate a second command type in response to a receiving within the buffer a second quantity of data having no invalid bytes. Further, in response to receiving a particular transaction type, the control unit may be configured to generate the second command type before the first quantity of data is received within the buffer.