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Which goes first Interrupt or MWr?

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Hi, 

 

I am working on a project with the Stratix V Hard IP PCI Express with MSI interrupts. I want to send a regular MWr packet followed by a interrupt (legacy or MSI). The question is if I write the MWr to the tx_st_data line and raise an interrupt, which will be sent first? The packet beign written is small, just 4 DWs. 

 

Being the interrupts are TLPs as well, I would think the first one to reach the IP goes out first, but I do not know if there is any reordering going on or of the credits could stop one but not the other. Or should I wait some time. Is there some way to tell when a packet sent on the tx_st_data line has been already shipped and is no longer sitting in the buffer? 

 

Thanks 

 

-G
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