Re: [Gems-users] Network in Ruby

[Mike Marty <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hongxia,

That is a clever idea.  To do this cleanly without hacking the generated 
Chip.C,  I would think that SLICC would still have to be extended in 
order to declare a special MessageBuffer that connects to some other 
controller. 

--Mike


hongxia sun wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>  
> The message enqueued in SLICC will wakeup PerfectSwitch because they 
> are put into the output port of the controller, and whose consumer is 
> PerfectSwitch. If consumers of different controllers are set to its 
> destinate controller, could message be transferred directly among 
> controllers? Or in this way, it is difficult to set special consumers 
> for each controllers' output ports?
>  
> Thank you!
>  
> Regards,
> Hongxia SUN
>
>  
> 2007/5/27, Mike Marty <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mikem@xxxxxxxxxxx>>:
>     Ju-Young Jung wrote:
>     > Hi, all.
>     > Hongxia, thanks for your previous response.
>     > I would like to ask several questions about network in ruby.
>     > My first question is : can I directly communicate among each
>     > controller's buffers without PerfectSwitch and Throttle in network?
>     > In order words, can each controller wakeup other controller as like
>     > normal enqueuing with wakeup, not going through PerfectSwitch or
>     > Throttle?
>     > If there is some critical problems, could you let me know it?
>     This is possible in theory. But SLICC lacks the syntax support to
>     directly enqueue a message to a MessageBuffer of some other
>     controller.
>     > Another quick question is about virtual network. From previous
>     thread
>     > (
>     https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/gems-users/2007-February/msg00000.shtml),
>     > I didn't get the concept of virtual net correctly. Can I hear some
>     > explanation of it?
>     > Thank you for your response in advance.
>     Virtual networks are used to avoid protocol deadlock. I believe
>     virtual
>     networks might be discussed in a research paper titled "The Alpha
>     21364
>     Network Architecture"
>
>     --Mike
>
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