Abstract:
Flow control in a distributed switch fabric (100, 200) includes detecting at least one of a congestion condition (238) in a downstream transceiver port (205) and an oversubscribing condition (257) of a channel buffer (230), where the downstream transceiver port (205) and the channel buffer (230) both correspond to a channel (231) of a traffic manager (208). Packets begin accumulating in the channel buffer (230). Per-flow flow control (254) operates to modify transmission of the packets over the channel (231) to the channel buffer (230) if the channel buffer (230) reaches a threshold value (256). Link level flow control (252) operates transparently to the traffic manager (208) if the congestion condition (238) is detected and the channel buffer (230) fails to reach the threshold value (256).
Abstract:
When an external reset signal EXRST is asserted received by a reset unit (6), it is synchronised with an internal clock to produce an internal reset signal INRST, which is applied to a CPU (4) and other modules in the circuit to reset them. While the internal reset signal INRST is being applied to the CPU, the rate of a refresh signal being generated by a DRAM controller (7) for refreshing data in DRAM (3) is increased. Then, when the external reset signal EXRST is disabled, a delayed reset signal DLYRST is generated and applied to the DRAM controller (7) so that it is reset. The CPU, being already reset, can then quickly reconfigure the DRAM controller and re-enable it to resume refreshing the DRAM (4), thus maintaining the data in the DRAM.