QUALITY OF SERVICE IN INTERCONNECTS WITH MULTI-STAGE ARBITRATION

Techniques are disclosed to provide quality of service in bus interconnects with multi-stage arbitration. Source computing elements tag packets with a priority class and/or a number of credits that are based on a distance to a destination computing element of the packets. Arbiters controlling access...

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Hauptverfasser: GANASAN Jaya Prakash Subramaniam, NOONEY Prudhvi Nadh
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Techniques are disclosed to provide quality of service in bus interconnects with multi-stage arbitration. Source computing elements tag packets with a priority class and/or a number of credits that are based on a distance to a destination computing element of the packets. Arbiters controlling access to the bus interconnect perform arbitration operations to serve packets having higher relative priority based on the priority levels and/or numbers of credits of each packet.