Subject: Re: 1.5ZC Snapshot
To: Chuck Dickman <chd_1@nktelco.net>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/10/2002 12:16:50
> Michael Thompson wrote:
> > 
> > I just installed the 1.5ZC kernel in a MV-III+ (KA655 in a MV-II). With the
> > 1.5.2 kernel the system would discard oversized packets very often. It
> 
> Was the cause of this identified or the notification just removed?
> 
No, it isn't removed.

> There was much conversation about this a while back. I never heard if
> the
> cause was hardware or software or that it had been solved.
> 
I did a small change about a year ago (match for transmit list invalid
in the interrupt routine) which may lower the amount of timeouts.
This ``cannot happen'', therefore it was not checked before.

-- Ragge