Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Input/output data processing – Input/output access regulation
Patent
1997-08-15
1999-11-16
Lee, Thomas C.
Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/
Input/output data processing
Input/output access regulation
710260, 710261, 710266, 710268, G06F 1314
Patent
active
059875380
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus, and an associated method, for requesting initiation of generation of an interrupt at an I/O APIC (input/output advanced programmable interrupt controller) of a multi-processor computer system. Initiation of generation of the inter-processor interrupt is requested by a peripheral component device, such as a PCI bus controller, not directly connected to an APIC bus extending to interrupt controllers associated with each of the processors of the multi-processor computer system. The interrupt permitted to be initiated by the peripheral component device includes, inter alia, a remote read request.
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Kotzur Gary B.
Tavallaei Siamak
Compaq Computer Corporation
Elamin Abdelmoniem I
Lee Thomas C.
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