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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2010
Ankush Varma, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Adrian C. Moga, Portland, OR (US);
Liqun Cheng, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ankush Varma, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Adrian C. Moga, Portland, OR (US);
Liqun Cheng, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is described that includes a plurality of processors, a plurality of cache slices and respective cache agents. Each of the cache agents have a buffer to store requests from the processors. The apparatus also includes a network between the processors and the cache slices to carry traffic of transactions that invoke the processors and/or said cache agents. The apparatus also includes communication resources between the processors and the cache agents reserved to transport one or more warnings from one or more of the cache agents to the processors that the one or more cache agents' respective buffers have reached a storage capacity threshold.