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3.0 Functional Description (Continued)

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Figure 3-19 Receive State Diagram

3.13.5.1 Receive Data Flow without Priority Queueing

With a bus mastering architecture, some number of buffers

and descriptors for received packets must be pre-allocated

when the DP83821 is initialized. The number allocated will

directly affect the system's tolerance to interrupt latency.

The more buffers that you pre-allocate, the longer the

system will survive an incoming burst without losing

receive packets, if receive descriptor processing is delayed

or preempted. The following describes the Receive data

flow without Priority Queueing:

1. Prior to packet reception, receive buffers must be

described in a receive descriptor ring (or list, if

preferred). In each descriptor, the driver assigns

ownership to the hardware by clearing the OWN bit.

Receive descriptors may describe a single buffer.

2. The address of the first descriptor in this list is then

written to the RXDP register. As packets arrive, they

are placed in available buffers. A single packet may

occupy one or more receive descriptors, as required

by the application.The device reads in the first

descriptor into the RxDescCache.

3. As data arrives in the RxDataFIFO, the receive buffer

management state machine places the data in the

receive buffer described by the descriptor. This

continues until either the end of packet is reached, or

the descriptor byte count for this descriptor is

reached.

4. If end of packet was reached, the status in the

descriptor (in main memory) is updated by setting the

OWN bit and clearing the MORE bit, by updating the

receive status bits as indicated by the MAC, and by

updating the SIZE field. The status bits in cmdsts

are only valid in the last descriptor of a packet (with

the MORE bit clear). Also for the last descriptor of a

packet, the SIZE field will be updated to reflect the

actual amount of data written to the buffer (which

may be less the full buffer size allocated by the

descriptor).

If the receive buffer management state machine runs out of

descriptors while receiving a packet, data will buffer in the

receive FIFO. If the FIFO overflows, the driver will be

interrupted with an RxOVR error.

rxDescRefr

rxIdle

rxDescRead

rxFifoBlock

rxDescWrite

rxAdvance

rxFragWrite

CR:RXEN && CRDD

CR:RXEN && !CRDD

link = NULL

XferDone

XferDone && !OWN

XferDone && OWN

link != NULL

(descCnt == 0) && (rxPktBytes > 0)

FifoReady

rxPktBytes == 0

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