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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2003
David G. Reed, Saratoga, CA (US);
Brian K. Langendorf, Benicia, CA (US);
Brad W. Simeral, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anand Srinivasan, San Jose, CA (US);
David G. Reed, Saratoga, CA (US);
Brian K. Langendorf, Benicia, CA (US);
Brad W. Simeral, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anand Srinivasan, San Jose, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A bus interface unit is adapted to receive transaction requests for at least two different targets. The bus interface unit monitors a capacity of a resource associated with servicing transaction requests to the targets, such as a posted write buffer. If a transaction request would fill the resource beyond a current remaining capacity of the resource such that the execution of other pipelined transactions would become stalled, the bus interface generates a retry response so that the request is retried at a later time, permitting other transactions to proceed while the resource drains.