Chapter 6. I/O Ordering
The Previous Chapter
The previous chapter described the rules governing acceptance, forwarding, and rejection of packets seen by HyperTransport devices. Several factors come into play in routing, including the packet type, the direction it is moving, and the device type which sees it. A related topic also covered in this chapter is the fairness algorithm used by a tunnel device as it inserts its own packets into the traffic it forwards upstream on behalf of devices below it. The HyperTransport specification provides a fairness algorithm and a hardware method for tunnel management packet insertion.
This Chapter
This chapter describes the ordering rules which apply to packets associated with the three types of HyperTransport ...
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