Standard Operation in Fast, Error-Free Environment

Assumptions in This Section

This section describes how messages are transferred in a “perfect” environment, but with no optional optimizations being used. It assumes the following base-line set of conditions:

  • No delay in request packet delivery. The request packets issued by the requester QP's SQ Logic make their way to the responder QP's RQ Logic in an expeditious manner.

  • Quick generation of responses. The responder QP's RQ Logic processes each request packet rather quickly and issues the corresponding response packet back to the requester QP.

  • No delay in response packet delivery. The response packet makes its way back to the requester QP's SQ Logic quickly.

  • No packets lost. No request or response ...

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