Re: [Gems-users] rank/priority of a message buffer

[Bradford Beckmann <beckmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nauman,

You have found one of the undocumented features of SLICC.  In short, you
should just ignore this.  It should not effect your execution.  The
rank/priority feature was used by very complicated protocols to find
incorrect resource stalls before they caused deadlock.

Brad


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nauman Rafique wrote:

> I am wondering what is rank/priority of a message buffer?
> I have seen it set to 100 or 101 for mandatoryQueue in the SLICC file for L1
> cache, but I have trouble finding out where it is used.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Nauman
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