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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Etai Adar, Yokneam Illit, IL;
Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Austin, TX (US);
Yiftach Benjamini, Givat Ela, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Direct memory access between an accelerator and a processor using a coherency adapter including receiving, by the adapter from the accelerator, a request to initiate a DMA transfer; providing, by the adapter, a translation tag ('XTAG') to the accelerator; receiving, by the adapter from the accelerator, a DMA instruction comprising the XTAG; generating, by the adapter, a DMA instruction comprising a real address based on the XTAG; and sending, by the adapter, the generated DMA instruction comprising the real address to a communications bus.