Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
LINK LAYER DATA PACKING AND PACKET FLOW CONTROL SCHEME

Abstract:

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing efficient data transfer in a computing system are disclosed. A computing system includes multiple fabric interfaces in clients and a fabric. A packet transmitter in the fabric interface includes multiple queues, each for storing packets of a respective type. The packet transmitter includes multiple queue arbiters, each for selecting a candidate packet from a respective one of the multiple queues. The packet transmitter includes a buffer for storing a link packet, which includes data storage space for storing multiple candidate packets. The packet transmitter selects qualified candidate packets from the multiple queues and inserts these candidate packets into the link packet. The packing arbiter avoids data collisions at the receiver by taking into consideration mismatches between the rate of inserting candidate packets into the link packet and the rate of creating available data storage space in a receiving queue in the receiver.