Patent ID: 9727498
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A bridge for coupling a requesting interconnect and a serving interconnect connected to a number of coherent units in a computer system, the bridge comprising: a first interface configured to receive a read request and a number of dependent write requests that the read request depends on from the requesting interconnect; and an issuer configured to issue the received number of dependent write requests to the serving interconnect and for issuing the received read request to the serving interconnect after issuing the number of dependent write requests and before receiving write acknowledgments for the issued dependent write requests from the serving interconnect, wherein the first interface is configured to connect the bridge with the requesting interconnect and includes a first buffer for buffering write data received from the requesting interconnect, a second buffer for buffering read requests and write requests received from the requesting interconnect and being coupled to the issuer, a third buffer for buffering read responses and a fourth buffer for buffering read data received from the serving interconnect.