Patent ID: 7676603

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a plurality of write transactions with a controller hub from a processor, each of the plurality of write transactions being associated with a write combinable attribute to indicate they are a plurality of write combinable write transactions; buffering data associated with the plurality of write combinable write transactions in a buffer of the controller hub in response to each of the plurality of write transactions being associated with the write combinable attribute to indicate they are the write combinable write transactions; and transmitting a write completion signal corresponding to each of the plurality of write combinable write transactions with the controller hub to the processor in response to buffering the data associated with each of the plurality of write combinable write transactions; flushing the data associated with the plurality of write combinable write transactions in the buffer as write combined data in a single transaction to an I/O device in response to receiving a flush signal from the processor after transmitting the write completion signal corresponding to each of the plurality of write combinable write transactions with the controller hub to the processor.