发明名称 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING ADDRESS INFORMATION BETWEEN PCI BUS PROTOCOL AND A MESSAGE PASSING QUEUE-ORIENTED BUS PROTOCOL
摘要 PCI load/store operations and DMA operations are implemented via work queue pairs in a message-passing, queue-oriented bus architecture. PCI address space is divided into segments and, each segment, in turn, is divided into regions. A separate work queue is assigned to each segment. A first portion of a PCI address is matched against the address ranges represented by the segments and used to select a memory segment and its corresponding work queue. An entry in the work queue holds a second portion of the PCI address which specifies a region within the selected segment that is assigned to a specific PCI device. In one embodiment, PIO load/store operations are implemented by selecting a work queue assigned to PIO operations and creating a work queue entry with the PCI address of a register on a PCI device and a pointer to the PIO data. The work queue entry is sent to a PCI bridge where the PCI address is extracted and used to program the appropriate device register with the data using the data pointer. DMA transfers are also implemented by selecting a work queue by means comparing a portion of the PCI address generated by the PCI device to an address range table and selecting a work queue that services the address range. A work queue entry is created with the remainder of the PCI address and a pointer to the DMA data. An RMDA operation is used to perform the DMA transfer. The page and region data is used in connection with a translation protection table in the host channel adapter to access physical memory and perform the DMA transfer.
申请公布号 WO0241157(A3) 申请公布日期 2002.08.01
申请号 WO2001US44043 申请日期 2001.11.14
申请人 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 发明人 AVERY, JAMES, M.
分类号 G06F13/40 主分类号 G06F13/40
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