One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for communicating transaction request information from a PCI environment over a network. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method for communicating request packet information from a network to a PCI environment. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a system for communicating transaction request information from a PCI environment over a network. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a system for communicating request packet information from a network to a PCI environment.
Methods and apparatus for peer-to-peer data transfers in a computing environment provide configurable control over the number of outstanding read requests by one peer device to another. A requesting peer device includes a control register that stores a high-watermark value associated with requests to a target peer device. Each time a read request to the target peer device is generated, the number of such requests already outstanding is compared to the high-water mark. The request is blocked if the number of outstanding requests exceeds the high-water mark and remains blocked until such time as the number of outstanding requests no longer exceeds the high-water mark. Different high-water marks can be associated with different combinations of requesting and target devices.
A method and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer data transfer through an interconnecting fabric. The method and apparatus enable a first device to read and/or write data to/from a local memory of a second device by communicating read and write requests across the interconnectivity fabric. Such data transfer can be performed even when the communication protocol of the interconnectivity fabric does not permit such transfers.
