September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1120 pages
23h 44m
English
PCI Express defines an infinite Flow Control credit value. A device that advertises infinite Flow Control credits need not send Flow Control Update packets following initialization and the transmitter will never be blocked from sending transactions. During flow control initialization, a device advertises “infinite” credits by delivering a zero in the credit field of the FC_INIT1 DLLP.
It's interesting to note that the minimum Flow Control credits that must be advertised includes infinite credits for completion transactions in certain situations. See Table 7-1 on page 303. These requirements involve devices that originate requests for which completions are expected ...
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