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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2006
David A. Norgaard, Rochester, MN (US);
David A. Norgaard, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for allocating multiple tags to multiple requesters in back to back clock cycles. A tag pool may be divided into a predetermined number of sections. Each requester may be associated with at least one of the sections in the tag pool. When multiple tag requests are received from multiple requesters each section containing available tags may provide a tag to a requester associated with the section per clock cycle. Therefore, multiple tags may be provided to multiple requesters in back to back clock cycles, thereby increasing efficiency and improving performance.