System, apparatus and method for traffic shaping of data communication via an interconnect
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsPavel Peleska, Reinhold Schneider
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Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a transmitter to send first data to a device coupled to the apparatus via a physical link; a receiver to receive second data from the device via the physical link; and a control circuit to control the transmitter to send the first data at a first effective rate during a link activation interval of a data transfer interval and to control the receiver to receive the second data at a second effective rate during the link activation interval, the second effective rate different than the first effective rate. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- a transmitter to send first data to a device coupled to the apparatus via a physical link;
- a receiver to receive second data from the device via the physical link, the physical link to operate in a dual simplex mode;
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- a control circuit coupled to the transmitter and the receiver, the control circuit to control the transmitter to send the first data at a first effective rate during a link activation interval of a data transfer interval and to control the receiver to receive the second data at a second effective rate during the link activation interval, the second effective rate different than the first effective rate, to reduce a duration of the link activation interval, wherein the control circuit is to determine the duration of the link activation interval based at least in part on an amount of the second data.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which if performed by a machine cause the machine to perform a method comprising:
- determining, in a control circuit, a link activation duration for a link that couples a memory device and a first device based at least in part on a first data transport load to be communicated between the memory device and the first device in a first direction;
- determining, in the control circuit, a second data rate for communication of a second data transport load to be communicated between the memory device and the first device in a second direction, based on the link activation duration and the second data transport load;
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- sending the first data transport load in the first direction at a first data rate and sending the second data transport load in the second direction at the second data rate.
A system comprising:
- a modem circuit to send first data to a network component in an uplink direction and to receive second data from the network component in a downlink direction;
- a memory coupled to the modem circuit to buffer at least some of the first data and the second data;
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- an application processor coupled to the modem circuit via a physical link, wherein the modem circuit includes a control circuit to control transmission of the first data via the physical link at a first rate during a link activation interval of a data transfer interval and to control transmission of the second data via the physical link at a second rate during the link activation interval, the second rate different than the first rate, to reduce a duration of the link activation interval, wherein the control circuit is to determine the duration of the link activation interval based at least in part on an amount of the second data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.