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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2005
Jeffrey William Breti, Nashua, NH (US);
Douglas Elliott Sanders, Framingham, MA (US);
Harish Bharadwaj, Redwood City, CA (US);
Suparna Behera, Cupertino, CA (US);
Gordon Douglas Boyd, Arlington, MA (US);
Richard John Bombard, Marlborough, MA (US);
Philip Waldron Herman, Jr., Carlisle, MA (US);
Jeffrey William Breti, Nashua, NH (US);
Douglas Elliott Sanders, Framingham, MA (US);
Harish Bharadwaj, Redwood City, CA (US);
Suparna Behera, Cupertino, CA (US);
Gordon Douglas Boyd, Arlington, MA (US);
Richard John Bombard, Marlborough, MA (US);
Philip Waldron Herman, Jr., Carlisle, MA (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided wherein a central Credit Controller Entity (CCE) is connected to a PCIE fabric environment by means of several buses. Flow Control information sent to the CCE over two of the buses indicates the buffer storage capacity that is available at respective Receiver components in the PCIE fabric. The CCE processes the Flow Control information, to generate updates that are sent by a third bus to Transmitter components corresponding to the Receivers. In one useful embodiment, directed to a method of Flow Control management, the CCE provides a repository adapted to store credit count information that represents the available storage capacity of respective Receivers. The method further comprises routing further credit count information from a given Receiver to the CCE, for storage in the repository, following each of successive events that affect the storage capacity of the given Receiver. The CCE is operated to selectively process the credit count information stored in the repository, in order to generate an update credit count. The update credit count is then selectively sent to a given Transmitter, to enable the given Transmitter to send a transmission to the given Receiver.