Aspects of the invention utilize a secondary communication channel to conduct flow control at the word level. As a result, the overhead associated with flow control can be reduced, as well as the risk of buffer overflow. In one embodiment, embedded flow control information is encoded as reversed running...http://www.google.fr/patents/US7535836?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7535836 - Method and system to provide word-level flow control using spare link bandwidth
Method and system to provide word-level flow control using spare link bandwidth