Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070300040
Filing Date: June 21, 2006
Inventors: Patrick J. Meaney, Michael Fee, Christopher M. Carney
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Current U.S. Classification: 712, 712/001000, 710, 710/240000
View Prior Art for Claim 00011
A method in accordance with Claim 9 wherein:
self-correcting logic is provided to maintain round-robin tokens including a token latch and toggling said token latch to arbitrate between pipe lines using round-robin voting to determine if the local request has the highest priority for the common resource.
