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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2005
Applicant:
Leslie E. Cline, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Leslie E. Cline, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods of managing power consumption provide for placing a processor in a non-snoopable state while a storage interface associated with the processor is enabled for bus mastering. In one embodiment, the bus mastering results in traffic between the storage interface and a storage device, where the traffic is monitored and the processor is placed a snoopable state when traffic is moving, and in the non-snoopable idle state if the traffic ceases for a period of time.