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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2006
Binata Bhattacharyya, Bangalore, IN;
Chandra P. Joshi, Bangalore, IN;
Chung-chi Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Liang Yin, San Jose, CA (US);
Vivek Garg, Folsom, CA (US);
Phanindra K. Mannava, Folsom, CA (US);
Binata Bhattacharyya, Bangalore, IN;
Chandra P. Joshi, Bangalore, IN;
Chung-Chi Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Liang Yin, San Jose, CA (US);
Vivek Garg, Folsom, CA (US);
Phanindra K. Mannava, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a first memory request from a first caching agent associated with a first processor, in a home agent associated with a memory, directing the first memory request to a writeback queue of the home agent if the first memory request is a writeback request and otherwise directing the first memory request to a second queue of the home agent. In this way, circular dependencies may be avoided. Other embodiments are described and claimed.