Hello Andreas,

Currently, the reasonable limit of this queue is set to 100. Is there a
specific reason to choose this as the maximum packet queue size.
Do any bus interface protocol specifies this limit in real platforms?

Thanks,
Prathap

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Andreas Hansson <andreas.hans...@arm.com>
wrote:

>  Hi Prathap,
>
>  The queued port is indeed infinite, and is a convenience construct. It
> should only be used in places where there is already an inherent limit to
> the number of outstanding requests. There is an assert in the queued port
> to ensure things do not grow uncontrollably.
>
>  Andreas
>
>   From: gem5-users <gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org> on behalf of Prathap
> Kolakkampadath <kvprat...@gmail.com>
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> Date: Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:34
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> Subject: [gem5-users] How queued port is modelled in real platforms?
>
>   Hell Users,
>
>  Gem5 implements a queued port to interface memory objects. In my
> understanding this queued port is of infinite size. Is this specific to
> Gem5 implementation? How packets are handled in real hardware if the
> request rate of a layer is faster than the service rate of underlying layer?
>  It would be great if someone could help me in understanding this.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Prathap
>
>
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