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US 2006/0136639 A1Published application
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AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsWilliam Futral, Kenneth Creta, Sujoy Sen, Gregory Cummings, Sivakumar Radhakrishnan
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Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for prioritizing transactions is disclosed. I/O devices may generate transactions with a stream identifier. A transaction classifier may assign a priority to a transaction based upon a stream identifier of the transaction. An arbiter may select a transaction for processing based upon priorities assigned to the transaction.
Claims20
A method comprising
- receiving a transaction having a stream identifier, and
- processing the transaction based upon a priority associated with the stream ID.
An apparatus comprising
- a transaction classifier to assign priorities to a plurality of transactions based upon stream identifiers of the plurality of transaction, and
- an arbiter to select transactions for processing based upon priorities assigned to the transactions.
A system comprising
- a processor,
- an I/O device to generate a memory transaction,
- a memory to store instructions for the processor and data for the I/O device, and
- a chipset to assign a priority to the memory transaction based upon a stream identifier of the memory transaction and a stream identifier to priority map, and process the memory transaction based upon the assigned priority.
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