Re: [Gems-users] PerfectSwitch wakeup

[Niket Agarwal <niketa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks mike for the reply.

> Niket Agarwal wrote:
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>     Hi all.
>     I have questions regarding the network functioning in Gems.
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>     What I figured out is, all 'Perfect' Switches are woken up in an
>     event driven fashion and the wakeup() method is called. This
>     happen's whenever there is an 'event' for that particular switch
>     to handle. The switch then processes the request.
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>     I have 2 questions:
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>     1. Where is the wakeup() call being made ?
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> The global event queue.  See EventQueue.C
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>     2. I followed the code and figured out that the switch transfers
>     the message from m_in to m_out. How is the message being
>     transfered into the next switch? Is link contention being modeled? 
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> PerfectSwitch does not model link contention. This is the job of a 
> Throttle, which keeps track of link bandwidth and adds queuing delay. 
> Every link has a PerfectSwitch and a Throttle.
> --Mike
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