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Natalie – the times do not assume synchrony between master and slave, that is why we went to two tables. Link control or autoneg ensure that silent is entered at the same time on both ends – that’s part of its purpose. The master has complete control of when it sends en_slave_tx = 1. It just needs to make sure it sends it so that the slave actually CAN exit SILENT by 40msec. It is arguable that we might want to require the master to send en_slave_tx
a little earlier than the 40msec. I recall asking this on the ad hoc, but don’t recall any response, and it is consistent, but would be open to proposals. Similarly, I also thought about having the time a little less than 97 msec. It was originally. However, 97 msec is at the bottom edge of the link_fail_inhibit timer tolerance, and the upper edge of tolerance here. the corner case is
a set of measure zero, and therefore, I think, tolerable. Reasonable minds may disagree, and, again, I’d be open to proposals. However, the times do not assume that the slave exits the moment it gets en_slave_tx = 1. The slave needs to have its receiver ready to exit by 40 msec so if the master sends the message at the last moment it can just proceed. If the
master sends it earlier, the slave may wait until its receiver is ready – but not past the 40msec time. From: NATALIE WIENCKOWSKI <nwienckowski@xxxxxxx> George, As all times have been defined as the maximum time, a vendor can't choose to spend more time than the maximum in any given state, even if they don't need the maximum time specified in another state. It appears that the times in the table on page 5 of http://www.ieee802.org/3/ch/public/sep19/zimmerman_3ch_01a_0919.pdf assume
the Master and Slave enter SILENT at the exact same time. They also assume that the instant the Master transmits en_slave_tx = 1, the Slave exists the SILENT state, assuming minwait_timer_done. It seems that this will take some finite amount of time, but
maybe it is small enough that it can be ignored. I'm just wondering if we need to have the total in each device less than 97 msec to ensure there is time to send messages back and forth and not exceed the link_fail_inhibit_timer. Maybe some
of the vendors creating these parts have an idea of how much time is needed for "handshaking". Thanks, Natalie From: George Zimmerman <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I was putting together the revised version of the startup timing changes (comment 169) based on what we discussed today and found a minor change is necessary. To unsubscribe from the STDS-802-3-NGAUTO list, click the following link: https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=STDS-802-3-NGAUTO&A=1 |