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Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2011
Applicants:

William Hughes, San Jose, CA (US);

Chengping Yang, Fremont, CA (US);

Michael K. Fertig, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

William Hughes, San Jose, CA (US);

Chengping Yang, Fremont, CA (US);

Michael K. Fertig, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/36 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device includes a link interface circuit, a first plurality of allocated buffers, and a second plurality of non-allocated buffers. The link interface circuit is operable to communicate over a communications link using a plurality of virtual channels. A different subset of the plurality of allocated buffers is allocated to each of the virtual channels. The non-allocated buffers are not allocated to a particular virtual channel. The link interface circuit is operable to receive a first transaction over the communications link and assign the first transaction to one of the allocated buffers or one of the non-allocated buffers.


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