cn8236 Mindspeed Technologies, cn8236 Datasheet - Page 210

• Manufacturer Part Number: cn8236
• Description: Atm Servicesar Plus With Xbr Traffic Management
• Manufacturer: Mindspeed Technologies

6.0 Traffic Management
6.4 GFC Flow Control Manager
6.4.1 A Brief Overview of GFC
6.4.2 The CN8236’s Implementation of GFC
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6.4 GFC Flow Control Manager
Generic Flow Control (GFC) is a one-way control mechanism which allows the
network equipment to control the input from an end station, for the class(es) of
traffic defined as controlled. This mechanism does not allow the end station to
exert any control on traffic from the network.
side of the network switch buffers. This allows a much higher degree of
multiplexing than is otherwise possible, and allows the network-side costs of
connections to be significantly reduced. By overbooking the input bandwidth, a
high degree of sharing is possible, and the buffer system can be used by more end
nodes than full bandwidth input would allow. GFC is used to coordinate access to
that bandwidth when temporary conflicts occur.
mechanism that only works on the link from the end station to the first piece of
network equipment. The GFC protocols are defined and described in ITU
Recommendation I.361.
The CN8236 implements the GFC one-queue mode. The reassembly coprocessor
provides Auto Configure and Command Detection. The segmentation
coprocessor provides Halt Processing and Per-transmit Queue SET_A control. It
does not implement the optional Queue B.
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coprocessor to halt processing of all channels, both controlled and uncontrolled.
This halt condition continues until a cell is received without the HALT indication.
GFC-controlled cell can be sent only when the GFC credit counter is equal to 1.
Transmission of a GFC-controlled cell decrements the credit counter by 1. Each
of the eight transmit priority queues can be configured for GFC control by setting
the appropriate GFCn bit(s) in the Scheduling Priority (SCH_PRI) register. In this
way the SAR can segment both GFC-controlled and GFC-uncontrolled traffic
simultaneously. GFC-controlled queues are active only when the GFC credit
counter is equal to 1.
into a transmit priority queue. In addition, the segmentation coprocessor
implements a credit borrow algorithm that provides better utilization of the line
when receive and transmit cell streams are not synchronized. Up to one credit can
be borrowed.
GFC_DATA fields in the buffer descriptor entries. For GFC-controlled channels,
GFC_DATA = 0101; and for non-GFC-controlled-channels, GFC_DATA = 0001.
GFC is useful because it allows overbooking of the bandwidth on the input
GFC provides a link-level, short-term, XON/XOFF-type flow control
Once the link has been configured for GFC operation (as described in
A received SET_A indication increments the GFC credit counter by one. A
CBR traffic is not affected by the SET_A command because it is not mapped
The user must control the transmitted GFC field via the HEADER_MOD and
6.4.2.1), a received HALT indication causes the segmentation
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ATM ServiceSAR Plus with xBR Traffic Management
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