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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2007
Paul M. Stillwell, Jr., Aloha, OR (US);
Nagabhushan Chitlur, Portland, OR (US);
Dennis Bradford, Portland, OR (US);
Linda Rankin, Portland, OR (US);
Paul M. Stillwell, Jr., Aloha, OR (US);
Nagabhushan Chitlur, Portland, OR (US);
Dennis Bradford, Portland, OR (US);
Linda Rankin, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for enabling usage of an accelerator device in a processor socket is herein described. A set of inter-processor messages is utilized to initialize a configuration/memory space of the accelerator device. As an example, a first set of inter-processor interrupts (IPIs) is sent to indicate a base address of a memory space and a second set of IPIs is sent to indicate a size of the memory space. Furthermore, similar methods and apparatus' are herein described for dynamic reconfiguration of an accelerator device in a processor socket.