Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric supporting destination data tagging

• US 7,409,481 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2005
• Issued: 08/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Clark, Leo J., Starke, William J., Fields, James S. Jr., Stuecheli, Jeffrey A., Guthrie, Guy L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang; Khanh
• Application Number:
  US11/055,405
• Publication Number:
  US 20060179254A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• Field of Search: 710/25, 710/27, 710/28, 710/45, 710/100, 710/105, 710/124, 710/200, 710/240, 711/119, 711/141, 711/146, 711/163
• US Class Current: 710/105
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B

Abstract

A data processing system includes a plurality of communication links and a plurality of processing units including a local master processing unit. The local master processing unit includes interconnect logic that couples the processing unit to one or more of the plurality of communication links and an originating master coupled to the interconnect logic. The originating master originates an operation by issuing a write-type request on at least one of the one or more communication links, receives from a snooper in the data processing system a destination tag identifying a route to the snooper, and, responsive to receipt of the combined response and the destination tag, initiates a data transfer including a data payload and a data tag identifying the route provided within the destination tag.

Claims

1. A method of data processing in a data processing system, said method comprising:

receiving, at an originating master that originated an operation by issuing a write-type request, a combined response to said write-type request;

the originating master receiving from a snooper responsible for servicing said write-type request a destination tag identifying a route to said snooper; and

in response to receipt of the combined response and the destination tag, the originating master initiating a data transfer of the operation, said data transfer including a data payload and a data tag identifying said route provided within the destination tag.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving said destination tag comprises said originating master receiving said destination tag in a partial response provided by said snooper.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving said combined response and receiving said destination tag comprises the originating master receiving said combined response and said destination tag concurrently from response logic that generates said combined response from one or more partial responses including said partial response provided by said snooper.

4. The method of claim 2, and further comprising accumulating said partial response provided by said snooper with one or more other partial responses of one or more other snoopers prior to receipt of said partial response by said originating master.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the data processing system includes a plurality of processing nodes each including a plurality of processing units; and

said data tag identifies said snooper by at least a processing node identifier and a processing unit identifier.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein initiating a data transfer comprises said originating master issuing said data tag more than one cycle in advance of said data payload.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the write-type request specifies a target address;

the snooper is a snooper of a system memory controller for a system memory assigned the target address of said write-type request; and

said step of receiving a destination tag comprises receiving a destination tag identifying a route to the system memory controller.