Dec 28, 2017 #1 P promach Advanced Member level 4 Joined Feb 22, 2016 Messages 1,199 Helped 2 Reputation 4 Reaction score 5 Trophy points 1,318 Activity points 11,636 For page 13 of https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.120.8910&rep=rep1&type=pdf , why is wormhole routing having larger risk of deadlock ? As quoted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole_switching#Mechanism_principle , could anyone elaborate on the sentence "In case of circular dependency, this back-pressure can lead to deadlock." ?
For page 13 of https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.120.8910&rep=rep1&type=pdf , why is wormhole routing having larger risk of deadlock ? As quoted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole_switching#Mechanism_principle , could anyone elaborate on the sentence "In case of circular dependency, this back-pressure can lead to deadlock." ?