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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

May. 31, 2012
Applicants:

Bryan D. Marietta, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Gary L. Whisenhunt, Leander, TX (US);

Kumar K. Gala, Austin, TX (US);

David B. Kramer, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Inventors:

Bryan D. Marietta, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Gary L. Whisenhunt, Leander, TX (US);

Kumar K. Gala, Austin, TX (US);

David B. Kramer, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and circuit for a data processing system provide a partitioned interrupt controller with an efficient deferral mechanism for processing partitioned interrupt requests by executing a control instruction to encode and store a delay command (e.g., DEFER or SUSPEND) in a data payload with a hardware-inserted partition attribute (LPID) for storage to a command register () at a physical address (PA) retrieved from a special purpose register () so that the partitioned interrupt controller () can determine if the delay command can be performed based on local access control information.


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