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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2011
Chetan Paragaonkar, Bangalore, IN;
Kuan Hua Tan, Coquitlam, CA;
Chetan Paragaonkar, Bangalore, IN;
Kuan Hua Tan, Coquitlam, CA;
PMC-Sierra US, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus, such as multi-engine controller that can be used to control multiple data processing engines in a command based IO processing system, such as a storage controller, to solve to the problem of scaling the data processing rate to match the advances in the IO interface data rates, including a method of identifying dependencies among various tasks queued up in the system and scheduling tasks out-of-order to avoid head of line blocking, a method to buffer and reorder the completed tasks such that the task output order is the same as that in the input to the system.