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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2008
Hongzhong Zheng, Chicago, IL (US);
Ulf R. Hanebutte, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
Eugene Gorbatov, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Howard David, Portland, OR (US);
Hongzhong Zheng, Chicago, IL (US);
Ulf R. Hanebutte, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
Eugene Gorbatov, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Howard David, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, device, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes grouping multiple memory requests into multiple of memory rank queues. Each rank queue contains the memory requests that target addresses within the corresponding memory rank. The method also schedules a minimum burst number of memory requests within one of the memory rank queues to be serviced when the burst number has been reached in the one of the plurality of memory rank queues. Finally, if a memory request exceeds an aging threshold, then that memory request will be serviced.