Re: Deadlock free routing

[Andre Bakkers <bks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:39 PM 6/26/97 Z, Øyvind Teig wrote:
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>Deadlock free routing
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>We have a discussion about deadlock-free routing.
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>Sirs                                           26 June 1997
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>In order to guarantee deadlock-free routing:
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>Q1. What is the relationship between how many buffers we need
>    and the blocking characteristics of application-code?
>

I would say that the number of buffers is not going to help ... in the end.
We have implemented Peter's ideas with good success as published in:
"TRANSNET - A Transputer-Based Communication Service"
Proc. 10th OUG, April 1989, in Enschede pp 198-212

Andy