METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACCELERATOR SUPPORT IN A BUS PROTOCOL

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for processing a bus protocol packet in order to provide accelerator support. A component receives a bus protocol packet having a requester identifier. The component looks up an agent routing field. The component routes the bus protocol packet to...

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Hauptverfasser: WOTTRENG ANDREW HENRY, FREY BRADLY GEORGE, THURBER STEVEN MARK
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The present invention provides a method and apparatus for processing a bus protocol packet in order to provide accelerator support. A component receives a bus protocol packet having a requester identifier. The component looks up an agent routing field. The component routes the bus protocol packet to an accelerator agent based on the agent routing field. It processes the bus protocol packet at the accelerator agent based on the agent routing field.