Patent ID: 11886367
Assignee: ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method comprising:
receiving a plurality of requests to access a destination from at least one source;
granting a subset of the plurality of requests access to the destination during a first arbitration window;
detecting an absence of backpressure at the destination based on a number of the plurality of requests available for receipt by the destination during the first arbitration window exceeding a number of requests included in the subset of the plurality of requests;
assigning a masking value by decrementing an index value for a lookup table that specifies request limit values for the at least one source, the masking value decreasing the number of the plurality of requests; and
granting an increased number of requests access to the destination during a second arbitration window based on the masking value.