Patent ID: 9665518
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method to control ordered writes of data from a requester device to multiple target devices, comprising: generating a plurality of write requests for a plurality of parcels associated with a block of data to be written from a requester device to multiple target devices, the write requests having a particular order in which the parcels are to be written to the multiple target devices; sending the write requests to a network of a plurality of interconnected switch points in the particular order, the requester device and the multiple target devices being coupled to the plurality of interconnected switch points; and controlling flow of the write requests to the multiple target devices using at least one of the switch points such that the particular order is maintained, wherein each write request comprises a requester identifier field for the requester device, a transaction identifier field for the target device, and at least one order bit indicating whether the particular oder is to be enforced.