Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and method of controlling information processing apparatus, configured to form ring-shaped bus

• US 10,459,841 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2018
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Sato, Kenta
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Hong C
• Application Number:
  US16/008,095
• Publication Number:
  US 20190018776A1
• Time in Patent Office: 502 Days
• Field of Search: 710107, 710112, 710118, 710125, 710244, 710305, 710316, 370400, 709251, 711158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0831 using a bus scheme, e.g. with bus monitoring or watching means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/1491 in a hierarchical protection system, e.g. privilege levels, memory rings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/38 Information transfer, e.g. on bus G06F13/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4247 on a daisy chain bus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/8015 One dimensional arrays, e.g. rings, linear arrays, buses

Abstract

A first information-processing-apparatus includes a buffer to have entries to store a first request-data received and transmitted to a second information-processing-apparatus, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit, to the second information-processing-apparatus, the first request-data and a second request-data to be transmitted to second or third information-processing-apparatus, when a state where a number of entries in which data is stored in the buffer is equal to or larger than a first threshold is continued for a time longer than a first time, and a state where transmissions of first and second request-data to the second information-processing-apparatus are suppressed is continued for a time longer than a second time, change a number of entries usable in the buffer into a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and when the number of entries usable is the second threshold, suppress a transmission of the second request-data.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus as a first information processing apparatus of a plurality of information processing apparatuses configured to form a ring-shaped bus, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a first buffer configured to have entries to store a first request data that is received through the ring-shaped bus and transmitted to a second information processing apparatus of the plurality of information processing apparatuses through the ring-shaped bus;

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to;

transmit, to the second information processing apparatus, the first request data stored in the entries of the first buffer and a second request data to be transmitted to the second information processing apparatus or a third information processing apparatus of the plurality of information processing apparatuses;

when a state where a number of entries in which data is stored in the first buffer is equal to or larger than a first threshold is continued for a time longer than a first time, and a state where transmissions of the first request data and the second request data to the second information processing apparatus are suppressed is continued for a time longer than a second time, change a number of entries usable in the first buffer into a second threshold larger than the first threshold; and

when the number of entries usable in the first buffer is the second threshold, suppress a transmission of the second request data to the ring-shaped bus.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the number of entries usable in the first buffer is the second threshold, and the number of entries in which data is stored in the first buffer becomes less than a third threshold smaller than the first threshold, the processor is configured to change the number of entries usable in the first buffer to the first threshold.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

store the second request data in a second buffer having entries to store the second request data that is received through the ring-shaped bus and transmitted to the second information processing apparatus through the ring-shaped bus, and

suppress the transmission of the second request data from the second buffer.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the number of entries in which data is stored in the first buffer is equal to or larger than the number of entries usable in the first buffer, the processor is configured to suppress the transmission of the first request data or the second request data from an information processing apparatus of a previous stage to the first information processing apparatus.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

issue the second request data; and

perform a processing according to the first request data and the second request data which are addressed to the first information processing apparatus.

6. An information processing system comprising:

a plurality of information processing apparatuses configured to form a first ring-shaped bus, an information processing apparatus as a first information processing apparatus of the plurality of information processing apparatuses configured to include;

a first buffer configured to have entries to store a first request data that is received through the first ring-shaped bus and transmitted to a second information processing apparatus of the plurality of information processing apparatuses through the first ring-shaped bus;

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to;

transmit, to the second information processing apparatus, the first request data stored in the entries of the first buffer and a second request data to be transmitted to the second information processing apparatus or a third information processing apparatus of the plurality of information processing apparatuses;

when a state where a number of entries in which data is stored in the first buffer is equal to or larger than a first threshold is continued for a time longer than a first time, and a state where transmissions of the first request data and the second request data to the second information processing apparatus are suppressed is continued for a time longer than a second time, change a number of entries usable in the first buffer into a second threshold larger than the first threshold; and

when the number of entries usable in the first buffer is the second threshold, suppress a transmission of the second request data to the first ring-shaped bus.

7. The information processing system according to claim 6, further comprising:

an information processing apparatus arranged outside the first ring-shaped bus and coupled to anyone of the plurality of information processing apparatuses forming the first ring-shaped bus,

wherein when the number of entries usable in the first buffer is the second threshold, the processor of the first information processing apparatuses is configured to suppress transmissions of the second request data and a third request data received from the information processing apparatus arranged outside the first ring-shaped bus.

8. The information processing system according to claim 6, further comprising:

a plurality of information processing apparatuses configured to form a second ring-shaped bus different from the first ring-shaped bus,

wherein a third request data is issued from an information processing apparatus forming the first ring-shaped bus to an information processing apparatus forming the second ring-shaped bus, and

wherein a processor included in an information processing apparatus forming the first ring-shaped bus and the second ring-shaped bus is configured to suppress a transmission of the second request data and the third request data received from the information processing apparatus forming the first ring-shaped bus, to the information processing apparatus forming the second ring-shaped bus, when the number of entries usable in the first buffer included in the information processing apparatus forming the second ring-shaped bus is the second threshold.

9. A method of controlling an information processing apparatus as a first information processing apparatus of a plurality of information processing apparatuses configured to form a ring-shaped bus, the method comprising:

storing a first request data that is received through the ring-shaped bus and transmitted to a second information processing apparatus of the plurality of information processing apparatuses through the ring-shaped bus, in a first buffer;

transmitting, to the second information processing apparatus, the first request data stored in the entries of the first buffer and a second request data to be transmitted to the second information processing apparatus or a third information processing apparatus of the plurality of information processing apparatuses;

changing a number of entries usable in the first buffer into a second threshold larger than the first threshold, when a state where a number of entries in which data is stored in the first buffer is equal to or larger than a first threshold is continued for a time longer than a first time, and a state where transmissions of the first request data and the second request data to the second information processing apparatus are suppressed is continued for a time longer than a second time; and

suppressing a transmission of the second request data to the ring-shaped bus, when the number of entries usable in the first buffer is the second threshold, by a processor.