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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2010
James R. Vash, Littleton, MA (US);
Pritpal S. Ahuja, Clinton, MA (US);
Bongjin Jung, Westford, MA (US);
Jeffrey D. Chamberlain, Tracy, CA (US);
James R. Vash, Littleton, MA (US);
Pritpal S. Ahuja, Clinton, MA (US);
Bongjin Jung, Westford, MA (US);
Jeffrey D. Chamberlain, Tracy, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus relating to multiple-queue multiple-resource entry sleep and wakeup for power savings and bandwidth conservation in a retry based pipeline are described. In one embodiment, a bit indicates whether a corresponding queue entry is asleep or awake with respect to arbitration for resources in a retry based pipeline. Furthermore, multiple entries from different queues may be grouped together and multiple resources may be grouped together. Other embodiments are also disclosed.