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30 Buffer Management (Continued)

and the buffer size to 762 words (1524 bytes) A similar

example for 16-bit mode would be EOBC e 759 words

(1518 bytes) and the buffer size set to 760 words (1520

bytes) The buffer can be any size but as long as the EOBC

is 2 words for 32-bit mode or 1 word for 16-bit mode less

than the buffer size only one packet will be buffered in that

RBA

Note 1

It is possible to filter out most oversized packets by setting the buff-

er size to 760 words (1520 bytes) in 32-bit mode or 759 words (1518

bytes) in 16-bit mode EOBC would be set to 758 words (1516

bytes) for both cases With this configuration any packet over 1520

bytes in 32-bit mode or 1518 bytes in 16-bit mode will not be

completely buffered because the packet will overflow the buffer

When a packet overflow occurs a Receive Buffer Area Exceeded

interrupt (RBAE in the Interrupt Status Register Section 436) will

occur

Note 2

When buffering one packet per buffer it is suggested that the val-

ues in Note 1 above be used Since the minimum legal sized Ether-

net packet is 64 bytes however it is possible to set EOBC as much

as 64 bytes less than the buffer size and still end up with one packet

per buffer

Figure 3-10 shows this ‘‘range’’

345 Beginning Of Reception

At the beginning of reception the SONIC checks its inter-

nally stored EOL bit from the previous RXpktlink field for a

‘‘1’’ If the SONIC finds EOLe1 it recognizes that after the

previous reception there were no more remaining receive

packet descriptors It re-reads the same RXpktlink field to

check if the system has updated this field since the last

reception If the SONIC still finds EOLe1 reception ceas-

es (See Section 35 for adding descriptors to the list) Oth-

erwise the SONIC begins storing the packet in the RBA

starting at the Current Receive Buffer Address (CRBA01)

registers and continues until the packet has completed

Concurrent with the packet reception the Remaining Buffer

Word Count (RBWC01) registers are decremented after

each word is written to memory This register determines

the remaining words in the RBA at the end of reception

346 End Of Packet Processing

At the end of a reception the SONIC enters its end of pack-

et processing sequence to determine whether to accept or

reject the packet based on receive errors and packet size

At the end of reception the SONIC enters one of the follow-

ing two sequences

Successful reception sequence

Buffer recovery for runt packets or packets with errors

3461 Successful Reception

If the SONIC accepts the packet it first writes 5 words of

descriptor information in the RDA beginning at the address

pointed to by the Current Receive Descriptor Address

(CRDA) register It then reads the RXpktlink field to ad-

vance the CRDA register to the next receive descriptor The

SONIC also checks the EOL bit for a ‘‘1’’ in this field If

EOLe1 no more descriptors are available for the SONIC

The SONIC recovers the address of the current RXpktlink

field (from a temporary register) and generates a ‘‘Receive

Descriptors Exhausted’’ indication in the Interrupt Status

SONIC maintains ownership of the descriptor by not writing

to the RXpktin

use field Otherwise if EOLe0 the SONIC

advances the CRDA register to the next descriptor and re-

sets the RXpktin

use field to all ‘‘0’s’’

The SONIC accesses the complete 7 word RDA descriptor

in a single block operation

The SONIC also checks if there is remaining space in the

RBA The SONIC compares the Remaining Buffer Word

Count (RBWC01) registers with the static End Of Buffer

Count (EOBC) If the RBWC is less than the EOBC a maxi-

mum sized packet will no longer fit in the remaining space in

the RBA hence the SONIC fetches a resource descriptor

from the RRA and loads its registers with the pointer and

word count of the next available RBA

3462 Buffer Recovery For Runt Packets Or

Packets With Errors

If a runt packet (less than 64 bytes) or packet with errors

arrives and the Receive Control register has been config-

ured to not accept these packets the SONIC recovers its

pointers back to the original positions The CRBA01 regis-

ters are not advanced and the RBWC01 registers are not

decremented The SONIC recovers its pointers by maintain-

ing a copy of the buffer address in the Temporary Receive

Buffer Address registers (TRBA01) The SONIC recovers

the value in the RBWC01 registers from the Temporary

Buffer Word Count registers (TBWC01)

347 Overflow Conditions

When an overflow condition occurs the SONIC halts its

DMA operations to prevent writing into unauthorized memo-

ry The SONIC uses the Interrupt Status register (ISR) to

indicate three possible overflow conditions that can occur

TLF10492 – 17

Range of EOBC e (RXrsrcwc01 b 2 to RXrsrcwc01 b 32)

FIGURE 3-10 Setting EOBC for Single Packet RBA

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