February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
11h 47m
English
The three error reporting methods, error responses, fatal and non-fatal interrupts, and Sync flood have different system implications. They are described here in order of increasing severity.
The HyperTransport specification considers error responses the preferred error reporting mechanism because they are the most localized (conveyed only from target to requester). Error responses are transaction-specific and do not prevent the link from performing other transfers — even to or from the same device.
Every RdSized or Atomic Read-Modify-Write request results in the return of a Read response from the target, followed by all of the requested data. All non-posted WrSized and Flush requests ...
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