What is Credit-based flow control?

A scheme in which the receiver advertises free buffer space as credits and the sender transmits only within them, so buffers never overflow.

Field: I/O Interfaces & Buses

Questions that mention Credit-based flow control (1)

  1. Which describes the credit-based flow control used in PCI Express?

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