One embodiment of the invention sets forth a control crossbar unit that is designed to transmit control information from control information generators to destination components within the computer system. The control information may belong to various traffic paradigms, such as short-latency data traffic,...http://www.google.com/patents/US8065465?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8065465 - Mitigating main crossbar load using dedicated connections for certain traffic types